Albert Sullivan
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Albert Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when the USS Juneau (CL-52) sank in 1942.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Albert Sullivan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6210757 — 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: Albert Sullivan Context triple: [USS Juneau (CL-52), notableCasualties, Albert Sullivan]
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A.
Paul Sullivan
Paul Sullivan is a relatively common name shared by multiple notable individuals, including figures in fields such as music, journalism, and sports.
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B.
Frank Sullivan
Frank Sullivan is an American college basketball coach best known for his long tenure leading the Harvard Crimson men's basketball program.
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C.
Frank Sullivan
Frank Sullivan was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical "Babes in Arms."
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D.
Pat Sullivan
Pat Sullivan was a star quarterback for Auburn University who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy and later became a college football coach.
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E.
Bill Sullivan
Bill Sullivan is the father of James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, the main monster character in Pixar's animated film "Monsters, Inc."
- 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: Albert Sullivan Target entity description: Albert Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when the USS Juneau (CL-52) sank in 1942.
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A.
Paul Sullivan
Paul Sullivan is a relatively common name shared by multiple notable individuals, including figures in fields such as music, journalism, and sports.
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B.
Frank Sullivan
Frank Sullivan is an American college basketball coach best known for his long tenure leading the Harvard Crimson men's basketball program.
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C.
Frank Sullivan
Frank Sullivan was a film editor known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the musical "Babes in Arms."
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D.
Pat Sullivan
Pat Sullivan was a star quarterback for Auburn University who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy and later became a college football coach.
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E.
Bill Sullivan
Bill Sullivan is the father of James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, the main monster character in Pixar's animated film "Monsters, Inc."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | sinking of USS Juneau (CL-52) ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | U.S. Navy policies discouraging siblings serving on the same ship ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
Saving Private Ryan (inspiration for premise)
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ⓘ
The Fighting Sullivans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1942-11-13 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Albert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedInAction | true ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sullivan brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the five Sullivan brothers who died together in World War II ⓘ |
| numberOfSiblings | 4 ⓘ |
| partOf | crew of USS Juneau (CL-52) ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
Iowa
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ⓘ
Waterloo, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedOn | USS Juneau (CL-52) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedTogetherWith |
Francis Henry Sullivan
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George Thomas Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Eugene Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison Abel Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipTypeServedOn | Atlanta-class light cruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Francis Henry Sullivan
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ⓘ
George Thomas Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Eugene Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison Abel Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| siblingCountInService | 4 ⓘ |
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: Albert Sullivan Description of subject: Albert Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Iowa who all served together in the U.S. Navy during World War II and were killed in action when the USS Juneau (CL-52) sank in 1942.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.