Ben Skardon
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Ben Skardon was an American Army officer, Clemson University professor, and prominent World War II veteran best known for surviving the Bataan Death March and later honoring his fallen comrades through annual memorial marches.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ben Skardon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1384102 — 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: Ben Skardon Context triple: [Bataan Death March, notableSurvivor, Ben Skardon]
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A.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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B.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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C.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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D.
Billy Paultz
Billy Paultz is a former American professional basketball center best known for his successful career in the ABA and NBA during the 1970s and early 1980s, where he was a multiple-time All-Star and key contributor to championship teams.
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E.
Jack Shea
Jack Shea was an American speed skater who became a double gold medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics and one of the early stars of U.S. winter sports.
- 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: Ben Skardon Target entity description: Ben Skardon was an American Army officer, Clemson University professor, and prominent World War II veteran best known for surviving the Bataan Death March and later honoring his fallen comrades through annual memorial marches.
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A.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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B.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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C.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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D.
Billy Paultz
Billy Paultz is a former American professional basketball center best known for his successful career in the ABA and NBA during the 1970s and early 1980s, where he was a multiple-time All-Star and key contributor to championship teams.
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E.
Jack Shea
Jack Shea was an American speed skater who became a double gold medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics and one of the early stars of U.S. winter sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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World War II veteran ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| affiliation | Clemson University ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| commemorated | fallen comrades from the Bataan Death March ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Clemson University ⓘ |
| employer | Clemson University ⓘ |
| event | Bataan Death March ⓘ |
| familyName | Skardon ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity |
higher education
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military service ⓘ |
| givenName | Ben ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| name | Ben Skardon self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participating in annual Bataan memorial marches
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surviving the Bataan Death March ⓘ |
| occupation |
Army officer
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college professor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | annual Bataan memorial marches ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Philippines ⓘ |
| residence | South Carolina ⓘ |
| survivorOf | Bataan Death March ⓘ |
| workLocation | Clemson, South Carolina ⓘ |
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: Ben Skardon Description of subject: Ben Skardon was an American Army officer, Clemson University professor, and prominent World War II veteran best known for surviving the Bataan Death March and later honoring his fallen comrades through annual memorial marches.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.