Horatio Nelson
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Horatio Nelson was a renowned British admiral celebrated for his decisive naval victories against France and his leadership during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
All labels observed (18)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T91306 — 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: Horatio Nelson Context triple: [French Revolutionary Wars, commandedBy, Horatio Nelson]
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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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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.
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Lord Jellicoe
Lord Jellicoe was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland during World War I and later serving in senior naval and imperial administrative roles.
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Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
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Francis Drake
Francis Drake was a 16th-century English sea captain, privateer, and navigator best known for circumnavigating the globe and raiding Spanish possessions during the Age of Exploration.
- 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: Horatio Nelson Target entity description: Horatio Nelson was a renowned British admiral celebrated for his decisive naval victories against France and his leadership during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Lord Jellicoe
Lord Jellicoe was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland during World War I and later serving in senior naval and imperial administrative roles.
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D.
Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain and privateer who became famous for his circumnavigation of the globe and later served as the first royal governor of the Bahamas, where he worked to suppress piracy.
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E.
Francis Drake
Francis Drake was a 16th-century English sea captain, privateer, and navigator best known for circumnavigating the globe and raiding Spanish possessions during the Age of Exploration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Horatio Nelson Description of subject: Horatio Nelson was a renowned British admiral celebrated for his decisive naval victories against France and his leadership during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (249)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England
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Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England
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Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England
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Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England
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HMS Victory, off Cape Trafalgar, Spain
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HMS Victory, off Cape Trafalgar, Spain
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Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London
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Battle of Copenhagen
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Aboukir Bay, Egypt