Jeremiah Denton
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Jeremiah Denton was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Vietnam War pilot who became famous for enduring years of torture as a prisoner of war and later serving as a U.S. senator from Alabama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeremiah Denton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8369047 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jeremiah Denton Context triple: [Hanoi Hilton, notablePrisoner, Jeremiah Denton]
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A.
R.J. MacReady
R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
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B.
Snake Plissken
Snake Plissken is a hardened, one-eyed antihero and former Special Forces soldier turned outlaw from John Carpenter’s dystopian action films "Escape from New York" and "Escape from L.A."
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C.
John Anderton
John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
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D.
John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
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E.
Donn Pearce
Donn Pearce was an American novelist and former convict best known for writing the novel "Cool Hand Luke," which he later adapted into the acclaimed 1967 film.
- 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: Jeremiah Denton Target entity description: Jeremiah Denton was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Vietnam War pilot who became famous for enduring years of torture as a prisoner of war and later serving as a U.S. senator from Alabama.
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A.
R.J. MacReady
R.J. MacReady is the rugged, resourceful helicopter pilot and reluctant hero who leads the fight against a shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film "The Thing."
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B.
Snake Plissken
Snake Plissken is a hardened, one-eyed antihero and former Special Forces soldier turned outlaw from John Carpenter’s dystopian action films "Escape from New York" and "Escape from L.A."
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C.
John Anderton
John Anderton is the troubled chief of a futuristic "Precrime" police unit who becomes a fugitive after being accused of a murder he has yet to commit in the science fiction story Minority Report.
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D.
John Laurie
John Laurie was a Scottish actor best known for his roles in classic British films and for playing Private Frazer in the television series "Dad's Army."
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E.
Donn Pearce
Donn Pearce was an American novelist and former convict best known for writing the novel "Cool Hand Luke," which he later adapted into the acclaimed 1967 film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ naval aviator ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| awardReceived |
Bronze Star Medal
ⓘ
Distinguished Flying Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Navy Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ Purple Heart ⓘ Silver Star ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1924-07-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Mobile, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedIn | Vietnam War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2014-03-28 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Naval War College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| electedTo | United States Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1987-01-03 ⓘ |
| familyName | Denton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeremiah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Rear admiral ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama since Reconstruction
ⓘ
blinking the word "TORTURE" in Morse code during a forced television interview ⓘ enduring torture as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam ⓘ |
| notableWork | When Hell Was in Session NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 7 ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
fighter pilot ⓘ naval officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention | Hỏa Lò Prison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United States senator ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| represented | Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Maury Wright Denton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1981-01-03 ⓘ |
| wasPrisonerOfWar | true ⓘ |
| yearsAsPrisonerOfWar | 1965-1973 ⓘ |
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: Jeremiah Denton Description of subject: Jeremiah Denton was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and Vietnam War pilot who became famous for enduring years of torture as a prisoner of war and later serving as a U.S. senator from Alabama.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.