Richmond P. Hobson
E731580
Medal of Honor recipient
Prohibition advocate
United States Navy officer
human
politician
temperance activist
Richmond P. Hobson was a U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient from the Spanish–American War who later became a congressman and prominent advocate for Prohibition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richmond P. Hobson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5358062 — 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: Richmond P. Hobson Context triple: [Richmond, hasNotableBearer, Richmond P. Hobson]
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A.
George A. Hockham
George A. Hockham was a British electrical engineer and physicist best known as a co-inventor of the optical fiber for telecommunications.
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B.
Frederick L. Ashworth
Frederick L. Ashworth was a U.S. Navy officer and ordnance expert who served as the weaponeer on the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission during World War II.
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C.
William V. D. Hodge
William V. D. Hodge was a Scottish mathematician renowned for his foundational work in algebraic geometry and for developing Hodge theory, which links differential geometry and topology.
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D.
John R. Brooke
John R. Brooke was a United States Army general who served as the first American military governor of Cuba following the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Louis Hobson
Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
- 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: Richmond P. Hobson Target entity description: Richmond P. Hobson was a U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient from the Spanish–American War who later became a congressman and prominent advocate for Prohibition.
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A.
George A. Hockham
George A. Hockham was a British electrical engineer and physicist best known as a co-inventor of the optical fiber for telecommunications.
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B.
Frederick L. Ashworth
Frederick L. Ashworth was a U.S. Navy officer and ordnance expert who served as the weaponeer on the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission during World War II.
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C.
William V. D. Hodge
William V. D. Hodge was a Scottish mathematician renowned for his foundational work in algebraic geometry and for developing Hodge theory, which links differential geometry and topology.
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D.
John R. Brooke
John R. Brooke was a United States Army general who served as the first American military governor of Cuba following the Spanish–American War.
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E.
Louis Hobson
Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Medal of Honor recipient
ⓘ
Prohibition advocate ⓘ United States Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ temperance activist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| conflict | Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Hobson ⓘ |
| givenName | Richmond ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Medal of Honor recipient ⓘ |
| ideology |
Prohibitionism
ⓘ
linked to:
Prohibition in North America
temperance ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
campaigning for alcohol Prohibition in the United States
ⓘ
heroism during the Spanish–American War ⓘ service in the United States Congress ⓘ |
| notableWork | advocacy for national Prohibition in the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
lecturer
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ politician ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| politicalMovement |
Prohibition movement
ⓘ
temperance movement ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the United States House of Representatives
ⓘ
officer in the United States Navy ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| 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: Richmond P. Hobson Description of subject: Richmond P. Hobson was a U.S. Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient from the Spanish–American War who later became a congressman and prominent advocate for Prohibition.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.