Cassin Young
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Cassin Young was a United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cassin Young canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7719161 — 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: Cassin Young Context triple: [USS Cassin Young, namedAfter, Cassin Young]
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A.
Terius Youngdell Nash
Terius Youngdell Nash, better known as The-Dream, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer renowned for crafting numerous R&B and pop hits for himself and other major artists.
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B.
Orin Boyd
Orin Boyd is the tough, rule-breaking Detroit police detective portrayed by Steven Seagal in the action film "Exit Wounds."
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C.
Jesse Hoyt
Jesse Hoyt was a 19th-century American lawyer and Democratic politician who became a prominent New York political figure and customs official.
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D.
Ellis Spear
Ellis Spear was a Union Army officer and later brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for his service with the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg and his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official.
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E.
Alex Datcher
Alex Datcher is an American actress best known for her role as a flight attendant alongside Wesley Snipes in the 1992 action film "Passenger 57."
- 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: Cassin Young Target entity description: Cassin Young was a United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
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A.
Terius Youngdell Nash
Terius Youngdell Nash, better known as The-Dream, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer renowned for crafting numerous R&B and pop hits for himself and other major artists.
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B.
Orin Boyd
Orin Boyd is the tough, rule-breaking Detroit police detective portrayed by Steven Seagal in the action film "Exit Wounds."
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C.
Jesse Hoyt
Jesse Hoyt was a 19th-century American lawyer and Democratic politician who became a prominent New York political figure and customs official.
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D.
Ellis Spear
Ellis Spear was a Union Army officer and later brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for his service with the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg and his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official.
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E.
Alex Datcher
Alex Datcher is an American actress best known for her role as a flight attendant alongside Wesley Snipes in the 1992 action film "Passenger 57."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Medal of Honor recipient
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United States Navy officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academyClassYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Medal of Honor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Navy Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1894-03-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
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World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1942-11-13 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | off Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| education | United States Naval Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Cassin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | USS Cassin Young museum ship in Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| hasNamesake | USS Cassin Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honoredIn | United States Navy ship naming ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| MedalOfHonorCitationFor | extraordinary heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
USS San Francisco
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
USS Vestal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NavyCrossCitationFor | extraordinary heroism during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership aboard USS San Francisco at Guadalcanal
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saving USS Vestal and many of her crew at Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| notableWork | heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Attack on Pearl Harbor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1942 ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | unknown ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1916 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| shipCommanded |
USS San Francisco
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
USS Vestal 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: Cassin Young Description of subject: Cassin Young was a United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient renowned for his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.