Robert McClure
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Robert McClure was a 19th-century Irish explorer and Royal Navy officer best known for leading the expedition that first traversed the Northwest Passage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert McClure canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T553661 — 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: Robert McClure Context triple: [Northwest Passage, exploredBy, Robert McClure]
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A.
Spencer Rivers
Spencer Rivers is the son of American sportscaster and former NBA player Doc Rivers.
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B.
Andrew Cunningham
Andrew Cunningham was a prominent British Royal Navy admiral of World War II, noted for his leadership in major Mediterranean campaigns and his role in Allied amphibious operations.
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C.
John Franklin
John Franklin was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer best known for his ill-fated expedition to chart the Northwest Passage.
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D.
George Vancouver
George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
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E.
Robert Bylot
Robert Bylot was a 17th-century English Arctic explorer and navigator known for his key role in early voyages searching for the Northwest Passage.
- 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: Robert McClure Target entity description: Robert McClure was a 19th-century Irish explorer and Royal Navy officer best known for leading the expedition that first traversed the Northwest Passage.
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A.
Spencer Rivers
Spencer Rivers is the son of American sportscaster and former NBA player Doc Rivers.
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B.
Andrew Cunningham
Andrew Cunningham was a prominent British Royal Navy admiral of World War II, noted for his leadership in major Mediterranean campaigns and his role in Allied amphibious operations.
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C.
John Franklin
John Franklin was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer best known for his ill-fated expedition to chart the Northwest Passage.
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D.
George Vancouver
George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
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E.
Robert Bylot
Robert Bylot was a 17th-century English Arctic explorer and navigator known for his key role in early voyages searching for the Northwest Passage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arctic explorer
ⓘ
Royal Navy officer ⓘ explorer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish ⓘ |
| explored |
Arctic region
ⓘ
surface form:
Arctic regions
Northwest Passage ⓘ |
| familyName | McClure ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | Arctic exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasHonor | recognition for completing the Northwest Passage ⓘ |
| knownFor | leading an expedition that completed the Northwest Passage ⓘ |
| led | expedition that first traversed the Northwest Passage ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer in the Royal Navy ⓘ |
| movement | Age of Exploration in the Arctic ⓘ |
| name | Robert McClure self-link ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | leader of a Northwest Passage expedition ⓘ |
| notableFor | first traversal of the Northwest Passage ⓘ |
| notableWork | expedition in search of Sir John Franklin ⓘ |
| occupation |
explorer
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ |
| partOf | British Arctic exploration efforts ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Arctic Ocean
ⓘ
Arctic Archipelago ⓘ
surface form:
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
|
| timePeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
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: Robert McClure Description of subject: Robert McClure was a 19th-century Irish explorer and Royal Navy officer best known for leading the expedition that first traversed the Northwest Passage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.