Richard Dale
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Richard Dale was an early United States naval officer and Revolutionary War privateer who later gained prominence commanding American forces during the First Barbary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Dale canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3053275 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Dale Context triple: [First Barbary War, USNavalCommander, Richard Dale]
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A.
Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman is a British actor best known for playing the villainous archaeologist René Belloq in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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B.
Richard Learoyd
Richard Learoyd is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "Gods of Egypt."
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C.
Charles Butterworth
Charles Butterworth was an American comic film actor of the 1930s and early 1940s, known for his dry, dithering persona in numerous Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Max Beesley
Max Beesley is an English actor and musician known for his roles in film and television dramas, as well as his work as a session keyboardist.
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E.
Sam Farrar
Sam Farrar is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a touring and later official member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Dale Target entity description: Richard Dale was an early United States naval officer and Revolutionary War privateer who later gained prominence commanding American forces during the First Barbary War.
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A.
Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman is a British actor best known for playing the villainous archaeologist René Belloq in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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B.
Richard Learoyd
Richard Learoyd is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "Gods of Egypt."
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C.
Charles Butterworth
Charles Butterworth was an American comic film actor of the 1930s and early 1940s, known for his dry, dithering persona in numerous Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Max Beesley
Max Beesley is an English actor and musician known for his roles in film and television dramas, as well as his work as a session keyboardist.
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E.
Sam Farrar
Sam Farrar is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a touring and later official member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Revolutionary War veteran
ⓘ
United States Navy officer ⓘ person ⓘ privateer ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Navy
ⓘ
Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George Washington ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1756-11-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia
ⓘ
linked to:
Christ Church Burial Ground
|
| capturedBy | British forces during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1826-02-26 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| escapedFrom | British captivity ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of English descent ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Continental Navy
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryConflict |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
First Barbary War ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command in the First Barbary War
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role as Revolutionary War privateer ⓘ service as an early officer of the United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
command of American naval forces in the Mediterranean during the First Barbary War
ⓘ
service as first lieutenant to John Paul Jones on USS Bonhomme Richard ⓘ |
| occupation |
naval officer
ⓘ
privateer ⓘ sailor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Battle of Flamborough Head ⓘ |
| positionHeld | one of the first six commodores of the United States Navy ⓘ |
| rank |
captain
ⓘ
commodore ⓘ |
| residence |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| servedOn | USS Bonhomme Richard ⓘ |
| servedUnder | John Paul Jones ⓘ |
| shipCommanded |
USS Ganges
ⓘ
USS President ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Richard Dale Description of subject: Richard Dale was an early United States naval officer and Revolutionary War privateer who later gained prominence commanding American forces during the First Barbary War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.