Madison Sullivan
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Madison Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, whose deaths together aboard the USS Juneau during World War II became a symbol of family sacrifice and led to changes in U.S. military policy regarding siblings serving on the same ship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madison Sullivan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6210756 — 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: Madison Sullivan Context triple: [USS Juneau (CL-52), notableCasualties, Madison Sullivan]
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A.
Hannah Sullivan
Hannah Sullivan is a contemporary British poet and academic whose debut collection "Three Poems" won widespread acclaim for its innovative, formally adventurous exploration of modern life.
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B.
Madison Russell
Madison Russell is a central human character in Legendary's MonsterVerse films, known for her close connection to Godzilla and involvement in uncovering conspiracies surrounding the Titans.
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C.
Chloe Sullivan
Chloe Sullivan is a resourceful and tech-savvy investigative reporter and close friend of Clark Kent in the TV series "Smallville," known for her role in uncovering meteor-infected phenomena and supporting emerging heroes.
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D.
Mia Dolan
Mia Dolan is an aspiring actress in Los Angeles and one of the two central protagonists of the musical film "La La Land."
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E.
Sophia Strahan
Sophia Strahan is one of former NFL star and television host Michael Strahan’s twin daughters, known publicly through her appearances with her father in media and on social platforms.
- 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: Madison Sullivan Target entity description: Madison Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, whose deaths together aboard the USS Juneau during World War II became a symbol of family sacrifice and led to changes in U.S. military policy regarding siblings serving on the same ship.
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A.
Hannah Sullivan
Hannah Sullivan is a contemporary British poet and academic whose debut collection "Three Poems" won widespread acclaim for its innovative, formally adventurous exploration of modern life.
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B.
Madison Russell
Madison Russell is a central human character in Legendary's MonsterVerse films, known for her close connection to Godzilla and involvement in uncovering conspiracies surrounding the Titans.
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C.
Chloe Sullivan
Chloe Sullivan is a resourceful and tech-savvy investigative reporter and close friend of Clark Kent in the TV series "Smallville," known for her role in uncovering meteor-infected phenomena and supporting emerging heroes.
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D.
Mia Dolan
Mia Dolan is an aspiring actress in Los Angeles and one of the two central protagonists of the musical film "La La Land."
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E.
Sophia Strahan
Sophia Strahan is one of former NFL star and television host Michael Strahan’s twin daughters, known publicly through her appearances with her father in media and on social platforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy light cruiser
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group of siblings ⓘ person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | sinking of USS Juneau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1942-11-13 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Irish American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sullivan brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memorializedAt |
Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum
NERFINISHED
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USS The Sullivans (DD-537) dedication ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryStatus | killed in action ⓘ |
| notableFor |
all five brothers dying in the same World War II naval action
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being one of the five Sullivan brothers who died together in World War II ⓘ contributing to changes in U.S. military policy on siblings serving together ⓘ |
| numberOfMembers | 5 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Guadalcanal Campaign
NERFINISHED
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Pacific Theater of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Waterloo, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedOn | USS Juneau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Albert Leo Sullivan
NERFINISHED
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Francis Henry Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ George Thomas Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Eugene Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkIn | Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 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: Madison Sullivan Description of subject: Madison Sullivan was one of the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, whose deaths together aboard the USS Juneau during World War II became a symbol of family sacrifice and led to changes in U.S. military policy regarding siblings serving on the same ship.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.