John Cooke
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John Cooke was a Royal Navy officer best known for his service and death at the Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Cooke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2833541 — 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: John Cooke Context triple: [HMS Bellerophon, captain, John Cooke]
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A.
John Cooke
John Cooke was a Mayflower passenger and early settler of Plymouth Colony, known as the son of fellow Pilgrim Francis Cooke.
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B.
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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C.
Frank Armstrong Crawford
Frank Armstrong Crawford was a 19th-century American philanthropist best known as the second wife of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and a major benefactor of Vanderbilt University.
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D.
Donald Cook
Donald Cook was an American stage and film actor active in the early to mid-20th century, known for his roles in both Broadway productions and Hollywood movies.
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E.
Philip Woodruff
Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
- 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: John Cooke Target entity description: John Cooke was a Royal Navy officer best known for his service and death at the Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
John Cooke
John Cooke was a Mayflower passenger and early settler of Plymouth Colony, known as the son of fellow Pilgrim Francis Cooke.
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B.
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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C.
Frank Armstrong Crawford
Frank Armstrong Crawford was a 19th-century American philanthropist best known as the second wife of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and a major benefactor of Vanderbilt University.
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D.
Donald Cook
Donald Cook was an American stage and film actor active in the early to mid-20th century, known for his roles in both Broadway productions and Hollywood movies.
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E.
Philip Woodruff
Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| conflict |
French Revolutionary Wars
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Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| countryOfAllegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooke ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasCitizenship | Great Britain ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | died in battle ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
British Royal Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Navy
Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| militaryStatus | killed on active service ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Trafalgar ⓘ |
| notableFor | service and death at the Battle of Trafalgar ⓘ |
| notableWork | naval command during Trafalgar ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| partOf | British fleet at Trafalgar ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | off Cape Trafalgar ⓘ |
| serviceNumberOrID | Royal Navy officer (18th–19th century) ⓘ |
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: John Cooke Description of subject: John Cooke was a Royal Navy officer best known for his service and death at the Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.