Caspar F. Goodrich
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Caspar F. Goodrich was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including roles in the Spanish–American War and as an influential naval strategist and writer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Caspar F. Goodrich canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5635061 — 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: Caspar F. Goodrich Context triple: [Goodrich, hasNotableBearer, Caspar F. Goodrich]
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Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist renowned for co-founding and directing the New York Botanical Garden and for his influential work on the flora of North America and the Caribbean.
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B.
James Dwight Dana
James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
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C.
Charles E. Knight
Charles E. Knight is an editor known for his work on the film "Young Winston."
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D.
S. G. Goodrich
S. G. Goodrich was a 19th-century American author, editor, and publisher best known for his popular educational works under the pseudonym "Peter Parley."
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E.
William Shepard Wetmore
William Shepard Wetmore was a 19th-century American China trade merchant and prominent Newport, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist.
- 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: Caspar F. Goodrich Target entity description: Caspar F. Goodrich was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including roles in the Spanish–American War and as an influential naval strategist and writer.
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A.
Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist renowned for co-founding and directing the New York Botanical Garden and for his influential work on the flora of North America and the Caribbean.
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B.
James Dwight Dana
James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
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C.
Charles E. Knight
Charles E. Knight is an editor known for his work on the film "Young Winston."
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D.
S. G. Goodrich
S. G. Goodrich was a 19th-century American author, editor, and publisher best known for his popular educational works under the pseudonym "Peter Parley."
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E.
William Shepard Wetmore
William Shepard Wetmore was a 19th-century American China trade merchant and prominent Newport, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy officer
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human ⓘ military writer ⓘ rear admiral ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict | Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Goodrich ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military science
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naval history ⓘ naval strategy ⓘ |
| genre |
military non-fiction
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naval history writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Caspar ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Rear Admiral ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | rear admiral ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on United States naval thought
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leadership in the United States Navy ⓘ service in the Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| notableWork | writings on naval strategy ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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naval officer ⓘ naval strategist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | United States Navy doctrine ⓘ |
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: Caspar F. Goodrich Description of subject: Caspar F. Goodrich was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including roles in the Spanish–American War and as an influential naval strategist and writer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.