James Stockdale
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James Stockdale was a highly decorated U.S. Navy vice admiral and Vietnam War POW who later gained national attention as Ross Perot’s independent vice-presidential running mate in 1992.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Stockdale canonical | 5 |
| James Bond Stockdale | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1578320 — 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: James Stockdale Context triple: [1992 United States presidential election, runningMate, James Stockdale]
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Eugene E. Covert
Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
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B.
James W. McCord Jr.
James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
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C.
Frederic J. Brown Jr.
Frederic J. Brown Jr. was a United States Army general best known for his leadership in the Korean War, particularly during the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge.
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D.
Russell Vought
Russell Vought is an American political operative and policy advisor who served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump.
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E.
Hugh S. Johnson
Hugh S. Johnson was an American soldier, lawyer, and government official best known for directing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal National Recovery Administration in the early 1930s.
- 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: James Stockdale Target entity description: James Stockdale was a highly decorated U.S. Navy vice admiral and Vietnam War POW who later gained national attention as Ross Perot’s independent vice-presidential running mate in 1992.
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A.
Eugene E. Covert
Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
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B.
James W. McCord Jr.
James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
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C.
Frederic J. Brown Jr.
Frederic J. Brown Jr. was a United States Army general best known for his leadership in the Korean War, particularly during the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge.
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D.
Russell Vought
Russell Vought is an American political operative and policy advisor who served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump.
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E.
Hugh S. Johnson
Hugh S. Johnson was an American soldier, lawyer, and government official best known for directing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal National Recovery Administration in the early 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: James Stockdale Description of subject: James Stockdale was a highly decorated U.S. Navy vice admiral and Vietnam War POW who later gained national attention as Ross Perot’s independent vice-presidential running mate in 1992.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Bond Stockdale
this entity surface form:
James Bond Stockdale