brig Lawrence
E160523
Brig Lawrence was a U.S. Navy warship best known as Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| brig Lawrence canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1402513 — 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: brig Lawrence Context triple: [Oliver Hazard Perry, commanded, brig Lawrence]
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A.
Charles Lawson
Charles Lawson is a botanist noted for his taxonomic work that formally described the Ponderosa pine.
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B.
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson was a pioneering early 20th-century geologist best known for his foundational work on California’s geology and seismic activity, including identifying the San Andreas Fault.
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C.
Henry Lawrence
Henry Lawrence was a British colonial administrator and soldier in India, best known for his leadership and death during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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D.
Lawrence Francis O’Brien Jr.
Lawrence Francis O’Brien Jr. was an influential American political figure and sports executive who served as U.S. Postmaster General, chaired the Democratic National Committee, and later became commissioner of the National Basketball Association.
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E.
John Bullough
John Bullough was a British industrialist from a prominent Lancashire textile family, known for his involvement in the cotton machinery industry and substantial wealth in the 19th century.
- 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: brig Lawrence Target entity description: Brig Lawrence was a U.S. Navy warship best known as Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
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A.
Charles Lawson
Charles Lawson is a botanist noted for his taxonomic work that formally described the Ponderosa pine.
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B.
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson was a pioneering early 20th-century geologist best known for his foundational work on California’s geology and seismic activity, including identifying the San Andreas Fault.
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C.
Henry Lawrence
Henry Lawrence was a British colonial administrator and soldier in India, best known for his leadership and death during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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D.
Lawrence Francis O’Brien Jr.
Lawrence Francis O’Brien Jr. was an influential American political figure and sports executive who served as U.S. Postmaster General, chaired the Democratic National Committee, and later became commissioner of the National Basketball Association.
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E.
John Bowers
John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: brig Lawrence Description of subject: Brig Lawrence was a U.S. Navy warship best known as Oliver Hazard Perry’s flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.