rear admiral lower half
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Rear admiral (lower half) is a one-star flag officer rank in the U.S. uniformed services, equivalent to a brigadier general in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rear Admiral (lower half) | 1 |
| Rear Admiral (lower half) (United States Navy) | 1 |
| Rear Admiral (upper half) | 1 |
| Rear admiral (lower half) | 1 |
| rear admiral lower half canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1455244 — 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: rear admiral lower half Context triple: [U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers, usesFlagOfficerRanks, rear admiral lower half]
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A.
Admiral
Admiral is a senior naval officer rank, typically the highest or among the highest in a navy, responsible for commanding large fleets and holding top-level strategic leadership roles.
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B.
Knight 3rd Class
Knight 3rd Class is a lower-ranking grade within the prestigious Dutch Military William Order, awarded for acts of exceptional bravery and leadership in battle.
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C.
Coronel
Coronel is a coastal city in south-central Chile known for its historic coal-mining industry and fishing activities along the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
MCPON
MCPON is the highest-ranking enlisted sailor in the U.S. Navy, serving as the senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chief of Naval Personnel.
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E.
Flag Officer, Dover
Flag Officer, Dover was a senior Royal Navy command responsible for overseeing naval operations in the strategically vital Dover area, particularly during the World Wars.
- 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: rear admiral lower half Target entity description: Rear admiral (lower half) is a one-star flag officer rank in the U.S. uniformed services, equivalent to a brigadier general in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
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A.
Admiral
Admiral is a senior naval officer rank, typically the highest or among the highest in a navy, responsible for commanding large fleets and holding top-level strategic leadership roles.
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B.
Knight 3rd Class
Knight 3rd Class is a lower-ranking grade within the prestigious Dutch Military William Order, awarded for acts of exceptional bravery and leadership in battle.
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C.
Coronel
Coronel is a coastal city in south-central Chile known for its historic coal-mining industry and fishing activities along the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
MCPON
MCPON is the highest-ranking enlisted sailor in the U.S. Navy, serving as the senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chief of Naval Personnel.
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E.
Flag Officer, Dover
Flag Officer, Dover was a senior Royal Navy command responsible for overseeing naval operations in the strategically vital Dover area, particularly during the World Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag officer rank
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military rank ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
RADM(LH)
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RDML ⓘ |
| appointmentMethod | presidential appointment with Senate confirmation ⓘ |
| category |
One-star officers of the United States
ⓘ
United States Coast Guard admirals ⓘ United States Navy admirals ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| equivalentRank |
air force brigadier general
ⓘ
army brigadier general ⓘ brigadier general ⓘ commodore (historical U.S. Navy rank) ⓘ marine corps brigadier general ⓘ |
| higherRank | rear admiral (upper half) ⓘ |
| insigniaFeature |
gold shoulder boards with one star
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one silver star ⓘ sleeve lace with one star ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf | United States uniformed services ranks ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Title 10 of the United States Code
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Title 14 of the United States Code ⓘ Title 33 of the United States Code ⓘ Title 42 of the United States Code ⓘ |
| lowerRank | captain ⓘ |
| NATOrank | OF-6 ⓘ |
| payGrade | O-7 ⓘ |
| promotionFrom | captain (O-6) ⓘ |
| promotionTo | rear admiral (O-8) ⓘ |
| rankClass | general and flag officer ⓘ |
| rankCode |
NOAA Corps O-7
ⓘ
USCG O-7 ⓘ USN O-7 ⓘ USPHS O-7 ⓘ |
| rankGroup | flag officer ⓘ |
| rankStructurePosition | lowest flag officer rank in U.S. sea services ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | sea services ⓘ |
| starRank | one-star ⓘ |
| styleOfAddress | rear admiral ⓘ |
| timeInGradeRequirement | varies by service and billet ⓘ |
| typicalCommandLevel |
major shore installation
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task group ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps
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surface form:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps
United States Coast Guard ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers ⓘ
surface form:
United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
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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: rear admiral lower half Description of subject: Rear admiral (lower half) is a one-star flag officer rank in the U.S. uniformed services, equivalent to a brigadier general in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers
→
usesFlagOfficerRanks
→
rear admiral lower half
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Rear Admiral (lower half)
this entity surface form:
Rear Admiral (upper half)
subject surface form:
Captain (United States Navy)
this entity surface form:
Rear Admiral (lower half) (United States Navy)
this entity surface form:
Rear admiral (lower half)