Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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Adolphus Washington Greely Good was an individual notable primarily for bearing a distinctive name associated with the American Arctic explorer and military officer Adolphus Greely.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Adolphus Washington Greely | 2 |
| Adolphus Greely | 1 |
| Adolphus Washington Greely Good canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3589327 — 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: Adolphus Washington Greely Good Context triple: [Good, hasNotableBearer, Adolphus Washington Greely Good]
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A.
William Thomas Sampson
William Thomas Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for commanding American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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B.
Samuel L. M. Barlow
Samuel L. M. Barlow is a notable individual who shares the surname Barlow and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
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C.
Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
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D.
William H. Melville
William H. Melville was a notable figure in the field recognized by the Melville Medal, an award established in his honor for distinguished contributions.
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E.
Charles Elliot
Charles Elliot was a British naval officer and diplomat who played a pivotal role in the early stages of the First Opium War between Britain and Qing China.
- 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: Adolphus Washington Greely Good Target entity description: Adolphus Washington Greely Good was an individual notable primarily for bearing a distinctive name associated with the American Arctic explorer and military officer Adolphus Greely.
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A.
William Thomas Sampson
William Thomas Sampson was a United States Navy admiral best known for commanding American naval forces during the Spanish–American War, particularly at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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B.
Samuel L. M. Barlow
Samuel L. M. Barlow is a notable individual who shares the surname Barlow and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
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C.
Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
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D.
William H. Melville
William H. Melville was a notable figure in the field recognized by the Melville Medal, an award established in his honor for distinguished contributions.
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E.
Charles Elliot
Charles Elliot was a British naval officer and diplomat who played a pivotal role in the early stages of the First Opium War between Britain and Qing China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| nameAssociatedWith |
Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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surface form:
Adolphus Greely
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| nameAssociationType | namesake of American Arctic explorer Adolphus Greely ⓘ |
| nameContains |
Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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surface form:
Adolphus Washington Greely
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| nameFamilyName | Good ⓘ |
| nameGivenNames |
Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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surface form:
Adolphus Washington Greely
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| notableFor | bearing a distinctive personal name ⓘ |
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: Adolphus Washington Greely Good Description of subject: Adolphus Washington Greely Good was an individual notable primarily for bearing a distinctive name associated with the American Arctic explorer and military officer Adolphus Greely.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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nameContains
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Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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this entity surface form:
Adolphus Washington Greely
Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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nameGivenNames
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Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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this entity surface form:
Adolphus Washington Greely
Adolphus Washington Greely Good
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nameAssociatedWith
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Adolphus Washington Greely Good
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Adolphus Greely