Isaac C. Kidd
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Isaac C. Kidd was a U.S. Navy admiral who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Isaac C. Kidd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13523443 — 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: Isaac C. Kidd Context triple: [USS Kidd, namedAfter, Isaac C. Kidd]
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A.
Clarence A. Crane
Clarence A. Crane was an American businessman best known as the inventor of Life Savers candy.
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Earl Holliman
Earl Holliman is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1950s onward, including notable roles in movies like "The Rainmaker" and "Giant" and in the TV series "Police Woman."
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C.
Henry J. Kaiser
Henry J. Kaiser was an American industrialist best known for his massive shipbuilding operations during World War II and for founding Kaiser Permanente.
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D.
William W. Grainger
William W. Grainger was an American industrialist and founder of the industrial supply company W.W. Grainger, whose philanthropy significantly supported engineering education.
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E.
Albert S. Ruddy
Albert S. Ruddy is a Canadian-born film and television producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on landmark films such as "The Godfather" and "Million Dollar Baby."
- 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: Isaac C. Kidd Target entity description: Isaac C. Kidd was a U.S. Navy admiral who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism.
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A.
Clarence A. Crane
Clarence A. Crane was an American businessman best known as the inventor of Life Savers candy.
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B.
Earl Holliman
Earl Holliman is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career from the 1950s onward, including notable roles in movies like "The Rainmaker" and "Giant" and in the TV series "Police Woman."
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C.
Henry J. Kaiser
Henry J. Kaiser was an American industrialist best known for his massive shipbuilding operations during World War II and for founding Kaiser Permanente.
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D.
William W. Grainger
William W. Grainger was an American industrialist and founder of the industrial supply company W.W. Grainger, whose philanthropy significantly supported engineering education.
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E.
Albert S. Ruddy
Albert S. Ruddy is a Canadian-born film and television producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on landmark films such as "The Godfather" and "Million Dollar Baby."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy admiral
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human ⓘ military personnel killed in World War II ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Campaign Medal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American Defense Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Medal of Honor ⓘ Navy Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Purple Heart ⓘ World War I Victory Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ World War II Victory Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | USS Arizona wreck, Pearl Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| child | Isaac C. Kidd Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1884-03-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1941-12-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| familyName | Kidd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Isaac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | Isaac C. Kidd-class guided missile destroyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide in war ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | rear admiral ⓘ |
| militaryServiceEnd | 1941 ⓘ |
| militaryServiceStart | 1906 ⓘ |
| namesakeOf |
USS Kidd (DD-661)
NERFINISHED
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USS Kidd (DDG-100) NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Kidd (DDG-993) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | defense of USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| participantIn | attack on Pearl Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | rear admiral ⓘ |
| reasonForAward | extraordinary heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | unknown ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shipCommanded | USS Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Inez Nellie Gillmore Kidd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Isaac C. Kidd Description of subject: Isaac C. Kidd was a U.S. Navy admiral who was killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.