Sailing Master Jairus Loomis
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Sailing Master Jairus Loomis was a U.S. naval officer notable for leading the American forces that destroyed the British-built, fugitive-slave stronghold at Negro Fort in Spanish Florida in 1816.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sailing Master Jairus Loomis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9840638 — 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: Sailing Master Jairus Loomis Context triple: [Battle of Negro Fort, commander, Sailing Master Jairus Loomis]
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A.
Basil Hood
Basil Hood was a British dramatist and librettist best known for his work on Edwardian musical comedies and collaborations with composers such as Arthur Sullivan.
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B.
Captain Lemuel Moody
Captain Lemuel Moody was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur from Portland, Maine, best known for commissioning and overseeing the construction of the historic Portland Observatory.
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C.
Malcolm Melville
Malcolm Melville was a son of American novelist Herman Melville and his wife Elizabeth Shaw Melville.
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D.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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E.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
- 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: Sailing Master Jairus Loomis Target entity description: Sailing Master Jairus Loomis was a U.S. naval officer notable for leading the American forces that destroyed the British-built, fugitive-slave stronghold at Negro Fort in Spanish Florida in 1816.
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A.
Basil Hood
Basil Hood was a British dramatist and librettist best known for his work on Edwardian musical comedies and collaborations with composers such as Arthur Sullivan.
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B.
Captain Lemuel Moody
Captain Lemuel Moody was a 19th-century American sea captain and entrepreneur from Portland, Maine, best known for commissioning and overseeing the construction of the historic Portland Observatory.
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C.
Malcolm Melville
Malcolm Melville was a son of American novelist Herman Melville and his wife Elizabeth Shaw Melville.
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D.
Captain Bill Owens
Captain Bill Owens is the skilled and level-headed submarine commander who leads the miniaturized crew on their perilous mission inside a human body in the science fiction film "Fantastic Voyage."
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E.
Captain Vidal
Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy officer
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human ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | role in early U.S. military actions in Florida ⓘ |
| commanded | American naval forces at Negro Fort ⓘ |
| conflict |
First Seminole War
NERFINISHED
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Negro Fort attack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1816 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| locationOfActivity | Spanish Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | sailing master ⓘ |
| notableEvent | artillery bombardment of Negro Fort ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading American naval forces against Negro Fort ⓘ |
| occupation | sailing master ⓘ |
| opponent |
British-supported forces at Negro Fort
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fugitive slaves at Negro Fort ⓘ |
| participatedIn | destruction of Negro Fort ⓘ |
| partOf | United States armed forces operations in Spanish Florida ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sailing Master Jairus Loomis Description of subject: Sailing Master Jairus Loomis was a U.S. naval officer notable for leading the American forces that destroyed the British-built, fugitive-slave stronghold at Negro Fort in Spanish Florida in 1816.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.