James Cook
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James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Cook canonical | 102 |
| Captain James Cook | 4 |
| Captain Cook, Hawaii | 2 |
| James Cook (for short periods during the expedition) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34792 — 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: James Cook Context triple: [Age of Exploration, hasKeyExplorer, James Cook]
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A.
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator of the early 17th century best known for his voyages in search of a northwest passage and for lending his name to the Hudson River and Hudson Bay.
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B.
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, significantly advancing European knowledge of world geography.
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C.
Francis Drake
Francis Drake was a 16th-century English sea captain, privateer, and navigator best known for circumnavigating the globe and raiding Spanish possessions during the Age of Exploration.
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D.
Nelson
Nelson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, entertainment, and academia.
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E.
Nathaniel Bowditch
Nathaniel Bowditch was an American mathematician and astronomer best known for his influential work in celestial navigation and his book "The New American Practical Navigator."
- 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: James Cook Target entity description: James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
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A.
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator of the early 17th century best known for his voyages in search of a northwest passage and for lending his name to the Hudson River and Hudson Bay.
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B.
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, significantly advancing European knowledge of world geography.
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C.
Francis Drake
Francis Drake was a 16th-century English sea captain, privateer, and navigator best known for circumnavigating the globe and raiding Spanish possessions during the Age of Exploration.
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D.
Nelson
Nelson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, entertainment, and academia.
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E.
Nathaniel Bowditch
Nathaniel Bowditch was an American mathematician and astronomer best known for his influential work in celestial navigation and his book "The New American Practical Navigator."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: James Cook Description of subject: James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
Referenced by (109)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cook Strait region