Captain
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Captain is a senior commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, typically commanding major warships or holding high-level staff positions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2909834 — 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: Captain Context triple: [United States Navy ranks, includesRank, Captain]
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A.
Captain
Captain is a senior supervisory rank within the Los Angeles Police Department, typically responsible for commanding a division or overseeing major operational units.
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B.
Captain Jack
Captain Jack was the Modoc leader who commanded his people during the Modoc War against United States forces in the 1870s.
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C.
El Capitán
El Capitán is the rivalry trophy awarded to the winner of the Texas Derby, the Major League Soccer rivalry between the Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas.
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D.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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E.
Captain Crewe
Captain Crewe is the loving and wealthy father of Sara Crewe whose presumed death and financial ruin trigger her hardships in the 1995 film "A Little Princess."
- 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: Captain Target entity description: Captain is a senior commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, typically commanding major warships or holding high-level staff positions.
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A.
Captain
Captain is a senior supervisory rank within the Los Angeles Police Department, typically responsible for commanding a division or overseeing major operational units.
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B.
Captain Jack
Captain Jack was the Modoc leader who commanded his people during the Modoc War against United States forces in the 1870s.
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C.
El Capitán
El Capitán is the rivalry trophy awarded to the winner of the Texas Derby, the Major League Soccer rivalry between the Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas.
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D.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
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E.
Captain Crewe
Captain Crewe is the loving and wealthy father of Sara Crewe whose presumed death and financial ruin trigger her hardships in the 1995 film "A Little Princess."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military rank
ⓘ
naval rank ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CAPT ⓘ |
| authorityOver | hundreds to thousands of personnel (depending on command) ⓘ |
| belongsTo | U.S. uniformed services rank structure ⓘ |
| category |
OF-5 NATO ranks
ⓘ
United States Navy officer ranks ⓘ |
| commandResponsibilityLevel | major command ⓘ |
| commandScope | large-scale naval operations unit level ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| equivalentRank |
Captain (United States Coast Guard)
ⓘ
Colonel (United States Air Force) ⓘ Colonel (United States Army) ⓘ
surface form:
Colonel (United States Army Air Forces)
Colonel (United States Army) ⓘ Colonel (United States Marine Corps) ⓘ Colonel (United States Space Force) ⓘ |
| formalAddress | Captain ⓘ |
| higherRank |
rear admiral lower half
ⓘ
surface form:
Rear Admiral (lower half) (United States Navy)
|
| insignia |
four silver stripes on sleeve
ⓘ
silver eagle shoulder board ⓘ |
| lowerRank |
U.S. Navy commanders
ⓘ
surface form:
Commander (United States Navy)
|
| NATOrankCode | OF-5 ⓘ |
| payGrade | O-6 ⓘ |
| promotionBoardLevel | centralized selection board ⓘ |
| rankClass | senior commissioned officer rank ⓘ |
| rankGroup | senior officer ⓘ |
| rankHierarchyPosition | above Commander and below Rear Admiral (lower half) ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| typicalAssignment |
high-level staff position
ⓘ
major fleet staff position ⓘ major joint staff position ⓘ major systems command staff position ⓘ |
| typicalBillet |
carrier air wing commander
ⓘ
chief of staff to a flag officer ⓘ commanding officer of a major warship ⓘ major program manager ⓘ naval station commanding officer ⓘ |
| typicalCommand |
aircraft carrier
ⓘ
guided-missile cruiser ⓘ large amphibious warfare ship ⓘ major shore installation ⓘ major warship ⓘ |
| typicalSelectionBasis | demonstrated superior performance and leadership potential ⓘ |
| typicalYearsOfServiceForPromotionMinimum | approximately 21 years ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Coast Guard ⓘ |
| wearsOnCollar | silver eagle rank device ⓘ |
| wearsOnServiceDressBlues | shoulder boards with eagle and four stripes ⓘ |
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: Captain Description of subject: Captain is a senior commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, typically commanding major warships or holding high-level staff positions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.