Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson
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Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson is the determined and aggressive U.S. Navy submarine commander who leads a perilous undersea campaign against Japanese shipping in the World War II novel and film "Run Silent, Run Deep."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Commander P. J. Richardson | 2 |
| Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3422493 — 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: Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson Context triple: [Run Silent, Run Deep, hasCharacter, Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson]
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A.
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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B.
Alan G. Kirk
Alan G. Kirk was a U.S. Navy admiral and diplomat best known for commanding American naval forces during the Normandy landings in World War II.
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C.
Robert Magaw
Robert Magaw was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his leadership and eventual surrender of American forces at Fort Washington in 1776.
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D.
Commander Joseph Lawrence
Commander Joseph Lawrence is a high-ranking, morally ambiguous Gilead official in the television series "The Handmaid's Tale," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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E.
Brigadier General Chuck Edwards
Brigadier General Chuck Edwards was a United States Air Force officer honored for his significant contributions to military aviation and aerospace development.
- 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: Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson Target entity description: Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson is the determined and aggressive U.S. Navy submarine commander who leads a perilous undersea campaign against Japanese shipping in the World War II novel and film "Run Silent, Run Deep."
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A.
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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B.
Alan G. Kirk
Alan G. Kirk was a U.S. Navy admiral and diplomat best known for commanding American naval forces during the Normandy landings in World War II.
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C.
Robert Magaw
Robert Magaw was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his leadership and eventual surrender of American forces at Fort Washington in 1776.
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D.
Commander Joseph Lawrence
Commander Joseph Lawrence is a high-ranking, morally ambiguous Gilead official in the television series "The Handmaid's Tale," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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E.
Brigadier General Chuck Edwards
Brigadier General Chuck Edwards was a United States Air Force officer honored for his significant contributions to military aviation and aerospace development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
submarine commander ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| appearsIn |
Run Silent, Run Deep
ⓘ
surface form:
Run Silent, Run Deep (film)
Run Silent, Run Deep ⓘ
surface form:
Run Silent, Run Deep (novel)
|
| campaign | undersea campaign against Japanese shipping ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
aggressive
ⓘ
determined ⓘ |
| commandedVehicle | U.S. Navy submarine ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| createdFor | Run Silent, Run Deep ⓘ |
| genre |
naval fiction character
ⓘ
war fiction character ⓘ |
| givenName | P. J. ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Rich ⓘ |
| occupation | submarine officer ⓘ |
| rank | Commander ⓘ |
| role | protagonist ⓘ |
| setting |
Pacific War
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Theater of World War II
|
| thematicFocus |
command responsibility
ⓘ
naval strategy ⓘ submarine warfare ⓘ |
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: Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson Description of subject: Cmdr. P. J. "Rich" Richardson is the determined and aggressive U.S. Navy submarine commander who leads a perilous undersea campaign against Japanese shipping in the World War II novel and film "Run Silent, Run Deep."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Commander P. J. Richardson
this entity surface form:
Commander P. J. Richardson