Matthew Calbraith Perry
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Matthew Calbraith Perry was a 19th-century U.S. Navy commodore best known for leading the expedition that opened Japan to Western trade and diplomacy with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Calbraith Perry canonical | 5 |
| Matthew C. Perry | 4 |
| Commodore Matthew C. Perry | 2 |
| Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1402501 — 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: Matthew Calbraith Perry Context triple: [Oliver Hazard Perry, sibling, Matthew Calbraith Perry]
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A.
Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
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B.
William H. Melville
William H. Melville was a notable figure in the field recognized by the Melville Medal, an award established in his honor for distinguished contributions.
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C.
Admiral David Farragut
Admiral David Farragut was a renowned U.S. Navy officer during the American Civil War, best known for his decisive victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay and his famous command, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
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D.
Isaac G. Perry
Isaac G. Perry was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for his extensive work on public buildings and armories throughout New York State.
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E.
George Dewey
George Dewey was a U.S. Navy admiral best known for leading the decisive American naval victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
- 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: Matthew Calbraith Perry Target entity description: Matthew Calbraith Perry was a 19th-century U.S. Navy commodore best known for leading the expedition that opened Japan to Western trade and diplomacy with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
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A.
Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for opening Japan to formal relations and trade with the United States through the Harris Treaty of 1858.
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B.
William H. Melville
William H. Melville was a notable figure in the field recognized by the Melville Medal, an award established in his honor for distinguished contributions.
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C.
Admiral David Farragut
Admiral David Farragut was a renowned U.S. Navy officer during the American Civil War, best known for his decisive victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay and his famous command, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”
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D.
Isaac G. Perry
Isaac G. Perry was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for his extensive work on public buildings and armories throughout New York State.
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E.
George Dewey
George Dewey was a U.S. Navy admiral best known for leading the decisive American naval victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Matthew Calbraith Perry Description of subject: Matthew Calbraith Perry was a 19th-century U.S. Navy commodore best known for leading the expedition that opened Japan to Western trade and diplomacy with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Matthew C. Perry
this entity surface form:
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
this entity surface form:
Matthew C. Perry
this entity surface form:
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
this entity surface form:
Matthew C. Perry
this entity surface form:
Matthew C. Perry
this entity surface form:
Commodore Matthew C. Perry