Kermit Beahan
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Kermit Beahan was a United States Army Air Forces bombardier best known for dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki during World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kermit Beahan canonical | 1 |
| Kermit Beahan Ferebee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6040997 — 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: Kermit Beahan Context triple: [Kermit, hasNotableBearer, Kermit Beahan]
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A.
Kermit Bloomgarden
Kermit Bloomgarden was a prominent American theatrical producer best known for staging major mid-20th-century Broadway plays and musicals, including works by Arthur Miller.
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B.
Kermit Maynard
Kermit Maynard was an American actor and stuntman best known for his roles in Western films during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Kermit Poling
Kermit Poling is an American composer, conductor, and violinist known for his work with regional orchestras and for composing music for ballet, film, and television.
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D.
Kermit Wahl
Kermit Wahl was an American professional baseball infielder who played in Major League Baseball in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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E.
Kermit Love
Kermit Love was an American puppeteer and costume designer best known for creating iconic Muppet characters for Jim Henson, including Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus on Sesame Street.
- 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: Kermit Beahan Target entity description: Kermit Beahan was a United States Army Air Forces bombardier best known for dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki during World War II.
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A.
Kermit Bloomgarden
Kermit Bloomgarden was a prominent American theatrical producer best known for staging major mid-20th-century Broadway plays and musicals, including works by Arthur Miller.
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B.
Kermit Maynard
Kermit Maynard was an American actor and stuntman best known for his roles in Western films during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Kermit Poling
Kermit Poling is an American composer, conductor, and violinist known for his work with regional orchestras and for composing music for ballet, film, and television.
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D.
Kermit Wahl
Kermit Wahl was an American professional baseball infielder who played in Major League Baseball in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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E.
Kermit Love
Kermit Love was an American puppeteer and costume designer best known for creating iconic Muppet characters for Jim Henson, including Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus on Sesame Street.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bombardier
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| aircraftFlown | B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Medal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Houston National Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1918-08-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-03-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Rice University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Beahan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Kermit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | 509th Composite Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | atomic bombing of Nagasaki ⓘ |
| occupation |
bombardier
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
air operations over Japan in World War II
ⓘ
atomic bombing of Nagasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Joplin, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | bombardier of B-29 Bockscar ⓘ |
| rank | Major ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | O-727347 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Kermit Beahan Description of subject: Kermit Beahan was a United States Army Air Forces bombardier best known for dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki during World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kermit Beahan Ferebee