Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr.
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Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr. was a senior United States Navy officer who held key leadership and administrative roles in naval personnel and operations during the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles B. McVay, Jr., admiral in the U.S. Navy | 1 |
| Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5915107 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr. Context triple: [Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, officeHeldBy, Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr.]
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Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee
Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee was a highly regarded U.S. Navy officer and battleship task force commander in the Pacific Theater of World War II, noted for his leadership in night surface actions and effective use of radar-directed gunfire.
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B.
Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton
Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton was a senior United States Navy officer who served in key leadership and administrative roles during the early 20th century.
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C.
Admiral Jonas H. Ingram
Admiral Jonas H. Ingram was a highly decorated U.S. Navy officer who rose to command major naval forces during World War II and later served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
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D.
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam was a senior United States Navy officer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his leadership roles in naval administration and education.
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E.
Rear Admiral George R. Clark
Rear Admiral George R. Clark was a senior United States Navy officer who rose to high-level leadership and administrative responsibility 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: Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr. Target entity description: Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr. was a senior United States Navy officer who held key leadership and administrative roles in naval personnel and operations during the early 20th century.
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A.
Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee
Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee was a highly regarded U.S. Navy officer and battleship task force commander in the Pacific Theater of World War II, noted for his leadership in night surface actions and effective use of radar-directed gunfire.
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B.
Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton
Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton was a senior United States Navy officer who served in key leadership and administrative roles during the early 20th century.
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C.
Admiral Jonas H. Ingram
Admiral Jonas H. Ingram was a highly decorated U.S. Navy officer who rose to command major naval forces during World War II and later served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
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D.
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam
Rear Admiral William F. Fullam was a senior United States Navy officer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his leadership roles in naval administration and education.
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E.
Rear Admiral George R. Clark
Rear Admiral George R. Clark was a senior United States Navy officer who rose to high-level leadership and administrative responsibility in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy officer
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human ⓘ rear admiral ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Navy ⓘ |
| familyName | McVay ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
naval operations
ⓘ
naval personnel management ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasHonorificSuffix | Jr. ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Charles B. McVay III
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linked to:
Charles B. McVay Jr.
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
United States Navy
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United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryBranchOfService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Rear Admiral
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captain ⓘ |
| name | Charles B. McVay Jr. ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) during World War II
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key administrative roles in early 20th century U.S. naval operations ⓘ leadership roles in U.S. Navy personnel administration ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
naval administrator
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senior officer in United States Navy ⓘ |
| 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: Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr. Description of subject: Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr. was a senior United States Navy officer who held key leadership and administrative roles in naval personnel and operations during the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Captain Charles B. McVay III
linked to: Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr.