Jeffrey Skiles
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Jeffrey Skiles is an American airline pilot best known as the first officer who helped safely land US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River alongside Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeffrey Skiles canonical | 1 |
| Skiles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12893483 — 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: Jeffrey Skiles Context triple: [Chesley Sullenberger, coWorker, Jeffrey Skiles]
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A.
Jeffrey Himes
Jeffrey Himes is a musician best known for having been a past member of the indie rock band Okkervil River.
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B.
Jeffery Hudson
Jeffery Hudson is a pseudonym used by American author Michael Crichton, notably for his early medical thriller "A Case of Need."
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C.
Kevin Liles
Kevin Liles is an American music executive and entrepreneur best known for his leadership roles at Def Jam Recordings and later at Warner Music Group.
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D.
Michael Dewell
Michael Dewell is best known as the husband of Dutch-American actress Nina Foch.
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E.
Sid Jeffers
Sid Jeffers is a fictional character from the film "Humoresque," involved in the dramatic world surrounding a talented but troubled violinist.
- 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: Jeffrey Skiles Target entity description: Jeffrey Skiles is an American airline pilot best known as the first officer who helped safely land US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River alongside Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.
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A.
Jeffrey Himes
Jeffrey Himes is a musician best known for having been a past member of the indie rock band Okkervil River.
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B.
Jeffery Hudson
Jeffery Hudson is a pseudonym used by American author Michael Crichton, notably for his early medical thriller "A Case of Need."
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C.
Kevin Liles
Kevin Liles is an American music executive and entrepreneur best known for his leadership roles at Def Jam Recordings and later at Warner Music Group.
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D.
Michael Dewell
Michael Dewell is best known as the husband of Dutch-American actress Nina Foch.
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E.
Sid Jeffers
Sid Jeffers is a fictional character from the film "Humoresque," involved in the dramatic world surrounding a talented but troubled violinist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airline pilot
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aviator ⓘ first officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| aircraftFlown | Airbus A320 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aircraftTypeOnNotableFlight | Airbus A320-214 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airline | US Airways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airlineTransportPilotCertificate | Federal Aviation Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Miracle on the Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cooperatedWith | Chesley Sullenberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| crewRole |
checklist management during emergency
ⓘ
pilot monitoring on Flight 1549 ⓘ |
| dateOfEventParticipation | 2009-01-15 ⓘ |
| emergencyProcedure | dual engine failure response ⓘ |
| employer | US Airways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
airline safety
ⓘ
commercial aviation ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasColleague | Chesley Sullenberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableCoworker | Chesley Sullenberger GENERATED ⓘ |
| helpedPerform | emergency water landing on the Hudson River ⓘ |
| knownFor |
crew resource management on Flight 1549
ⓘ
professionalism during aviation emergency ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediaPortrayal | portrayed in films and documentaries about Flight 1549 ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | contributing to safe evacuation of passengers on Flight 1549 ⓘ |
| notableEventDestination | Charlotte Douglas International Airport GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableEventLocation | Hudson River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEventOrigin | LaGuardia Airport GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableFor | US Airways Flight 1549 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfFatalitiesOnNotableFlight | 0 GENERATED ⓘ |
| occupation |
airline pilot
ⓘ
first officer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Hudson River ditching of US Airways Flight 1549
NERFINISHED
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US Airways Flight 1549 emergency landing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partnerInEvent | Chesley Sullenberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| publicSpeakerOn |
aviation safety
ⓘ
crew resource management ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| role | first officer on US Airways Flight 1549 ⓘ |
| safetyRecord | recognized for successful handling of in-flight emergency ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
interviews on aviation safety
ⓘ
news coverage following US Airways Flight 1549 ⓘ |
| survived | US Airways Flight 1549 ditching ⓘ |
| transportMode | commercial air transport ⓘ |
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: Jeffrey Skiles Description of subject: Jeffrey Skiles is an American airline pilot best known as the first officer who helped safely land US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River alongside Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Skiles