Charles William Sweeney
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Charles William Sweeney was a United States Air Force major general best known for piloting the B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and for a support mission over Hiroshima during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles William Sweeney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4599598 — 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: Charles William Sweeney Context triple: [Charles W. Sweeney, fullName, Charles William Sweeney]
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A.
Charles R. Fenwick
Charles R. Fenwick was a Virginia lawyer and long-serving state legislator known for his influence on transportation policy, for whom the Charles R. Fenwick Bridge is named.
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B.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
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C.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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D.
William A. Shea
William A. Shea was an American lawyer and civic leader best known for spearheading the return of National League baseball to New York City, leading to the founding of the New York Mets and the naming of Shea Stadium in his honor.
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E.
John F. Burnett
John F. Burnett is an editor known for his work on the book "The Way We Were."
- 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: Charles William Sweeney Target entity description: Charles William Sweeney was a United States Air Force major general best known for piloting the B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and for a support mission over Hiroshima during World War II.
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A.
Charles R. Fenwick
Charles R. Fenwick was a Virginia lawyer and long-serving state legislator known for his influence on transportation policy, for whom the Charles R. Fenwick Bridge is named.
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B.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
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C.
Leonard Franklin Slye
Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
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D.
William A. Shea
William A. Shea was an American lawyer and civic leader best known for spearheading the return of National League baseball to New York City, leading to the founding of the New York Mets and the naming of Shea Stadium in his honor.
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E.
John F. Burnett
John F. Burnett is an editor known for his work on the book "The Way We Were."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States military officer
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bomber pilot ⓘ human ⓘ |
| aircraftFlown | Boeing B-29 Superfortress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| authored | War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
NERFINISHED
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Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Presidential Unit Citation NERFINISHED ⓘ Purple Heart ⓘ Silver Star ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Holyhood Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
James A. Antonucci
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marvin L. Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded | B-29 Bockscar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-12-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-07-16 ⓘ |
| education | Lowell High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Sweeney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Charles William Sweeney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
United States Air Force
ⓘ
United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| notableEvent | second atomic bombing mission in history ⓘ |
| notableFor |
flying a support mission over Hiroshima
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piloting the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
pilot ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
atomic bombing of Hiroshima support mission
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atomic bombing of Nagasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lowell, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Boston, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | aircraft commander of Bockscar ⓘ |
| promotedToRank | major general ⓘ |
| rank | major general ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Milton, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | O-433601 ⓘ |
| spouse | Madeline Gannon Sweeney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| unit | 509th Composite Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Charles William Sweeney Description of subject: Charles William Sweeney was a United States Air Force major general best known for piloting the B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and for a support mission over Hiroshima during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Charles W. Sweeney