Captain Richard Pearson
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Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Richard Pearson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T552632 — 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: Captain Richard Pearson Context triple: [Battle of Flamborough Head, commandingOfficerBritishSide, Captain Richard Pearson]
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Captain Philip Vian
Captain Philip Vian was a distinguished Royal Navy officer and World War II destroyer commander renowned for his aggressive leadership in actions such as the Altmark incident and major naval battles.
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B.
Captain Lemuel Moody
Captain Lemuel Moody was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur from Portland, Maine, best known for commissioning and overseeing the construction of the historic Portland Observatory.
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C.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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D.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Alexander Cochrane
Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
- 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: Captain Richard Pearson Target entity description: Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Captain Philip Vian
Captain Philip Vian was a distinguished Royal Navy officer and World War II destroyer commander renowned for his aggressive leadership in actions such as the Altmark incident and major naval battles.
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B.
Captain Lemuel Moody
Captain Lemuel Moody was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur from Portland, Maine, best known for commissioning and overseeing the construction of the historic Portland Observatory.
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C.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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D.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Alexander Cochrane
Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British naval officer
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person ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Flamborough Head ⓘ |
| commanded | HMS Serapis ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| conflictRole | British commander at the Battle of Flamborough Head ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBattle | 1779 ⓘ |
| familyName | Pearson ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Naval operations in the North Sea during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableEvent | engagement with John Paul Jones off Flamborough Head in 1779 ⓘ |
| notableFor | Battle of Flamborough Head ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| opponent | John Paul Jones ⓘ |
| opponentShip | Bonhomme Richard ⓘ |
| rank | captain ⓘ |
| sideInWar | Great Britain ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th 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: Captain Richard Pearson Description of subject: Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.