Jeffrey B. Skiles
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Jeffrey B. Skiles is an American airline pilot best known as the first officer who helped successfully ditch US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeffrey B. Skiles canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2989667 — 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: Jeffrey B. Skiles Context triple: [US Airways Flight 1549, firstOfficer, Jeffrey B. Skiles]
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A.
Jonathan M. Daniels
Jonathan M. Daniels was a civil rights activist and Episcopal seminarian who was killed in 1965 while protecting a young Black girl during the struggle for racial equality in Alabama.
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B.
Mark D. Bailey
Mark D. Bailey is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Carey W. Hayes
Carey W. Hayes is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular horror films, including the hit supernatural franchise "The Conjuring."
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D.
Duncan M. Gray III
Duncan M. Gray III is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Diocese of Mississippi and his advocacy for social justice and civil rights.
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E.
Thomas J. Bliley Jr.
Thomas J. Bliley Jr. is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Representative from Virginia who chaired the House Commerce Committee and played a key role in major financial deregulation legislation.
- 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: Jeffrey B. Skiles Target entity description: Jeffrey B. Skiles is an American airline pilot best known as the first officer who helped successfully ditch US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009.
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A.
Jonathan M. Daniels
Jonathan M. Daniels was a civil rights activist and Episcopal seminarian who was killed in 1965 while protecting a young Black girl during the struggle for racial equality in Alabama.
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B.
Mark D. Bailey
Mark D. Bailey is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Carey W. Hayes
Carey W. Hayes is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular horror films, including the hit supernatural franchise "The Conjuring."
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D.
Duncan M. Gray III
Duncan M. Gray III is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Diocese of Mississippi and his advocacy for social justice and civil rights.
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E.
Thomas J. Bliley Jr.
Thomas J. Bliley Jr. is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Representative from Virginia who chaired the House Commerce Committee and played a key role in major financial deregulation legislation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Jeffrey B. Skiles Description of subject: Jeffrey B. Skiles is an American airline pilot best known as the first officer who helped successfully ditch US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.