Alexander Cochrane
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Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Cochrane canonical | 6 |
| Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T62039 — 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: Alexander Cochrane Context triple: [Battle of Baltimore, commander, Alexander Cochrane]
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A.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
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B.
Lord Roberts
Lord Roberts was a prominent British field marshal who led imperial forces during key late-19th-century colonial campaigns, including in South Africa and India.
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C.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Frank Jack Fletcher
Frank Jack Fletcher was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who played a key leadership role in early Pacific carrier battles, including the Coral Sea and Midway campaigns.
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E.
Lord Jellicoe
Lord Jellicoe was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland during World War I and later serving in senior naval and imperial administrative roles.
- 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: Alexander Cochrane Target entity description: Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
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A.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
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B.
Lord Roberts
Lord Roberts was a prominent British field marshal who led imperial forces during key late-19th-century colonial campaigns, including in South Africa and India.
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C.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Frank Jack Fletcher
Frank Jack Fletcher was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who played a key leadership role in early Pacific carrier battles, including the Coral Sea and Midway campaigns.
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E.
Lord Jellicoe
Lord Jellicoe was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland during World War I and later serving in senior naval and imperial administrative roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy officer
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admiral ⓘ human ⓘ |
| conflict |
Napoleonic Wars
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War of 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Cochrane ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | naval warfare ⓘ |
| genre | military history ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | admiral ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading British naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore
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command of British naval forces in the Chesapeake campaign ⓘ naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| opponent |
United Kingdom
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surface form:
United States
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| participantIn |
Battle of Baltimore
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Chesapeake campaign ⓘ operations against Washington, D.C. in 1814 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | admiral in the Royal Navy ⓘ |
| side | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Alexander Cochrane Description of subject: Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
West Indies Station
this entity surface form:
Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane