James D. La Belle
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James D. La Belle was a United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James D. La Belle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2407144 — 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: James D. La Belle Context triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, James D. La Belle]
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A.
William M. Rice
William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
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B.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
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C.
John M. Balch
John M. Balch was an individual significant enough in local history that the city of Balch Springs, Texas, was named in his honor.
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D.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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E.
Robert J. Wynne
Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
- 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: James D. La Belle Target entity description: James D. La Belle was a United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
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A.
William M. Rice
William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
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B.
James L. Wilmeth
James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
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C.
John M. Balch
John M. Balch was an individual significant enough in local history that the city of Balch Springs, Texas, was named in his honor.
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D.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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E.
Robert J. Wynne
Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Medal of Honor recipient
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United States Marine ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-11-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1945-03-08 ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed in action ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | La Belle ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Private First Class ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | United States Marine Corps infantry unit on Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| notableWork | self-sacrificial act to save fellow Marines ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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linked to:
Columbus, Ohio
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| placeOfDeath |
Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands
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linked to:
Iwo Jima
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| reasonForAward | extraordinary heroism on Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | unknown ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: James D. La Belle Description of subject: James D. La Belle was a United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient who was killed in action during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.