John
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John is the given name of American singer Johnnie Ray, a popular mid-20th-century pop music star known for his emotional, dramatic vocal style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13235882 — 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.
Target entity: John Context triple: [Johnnie Ray, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
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John
John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
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John
John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
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John
John Cicero was a late 15th-century Elector of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern who helped consolidate the territory’s political and administrative structures within the Holy Roman Empire.
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John
John is the given name of American screenwriter John Michael Hayes, known for his work on several Alfred Hitchcock films.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Target entity description: John is the given name of American singer Johnnie Ray, a popular mid-20th-century pop music star known for his emotional, dramatic vocal style.
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John
John is the given name of the renowned American stage and film actor John Barrymore, a major star of the early 20th century.
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John
John is the formal given name of American lyricist, songwriter, and singer Johnny Mercer, a key figure in 20th-century popular music.
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John
John is the birth name of American actor and singer Jack Cassidy, known for his work on stage and screen in the mid-20th century.
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John
John is the given name of American singer-songwriter and guitarist John Mayer, known for his blues-influenced pop and rock music.
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John
John is the given first name of the legendary American singer-songwriter and cultural icon Johnny Cash.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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recording artist ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
John Alvin Ray
NERFINISHED
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The Nabob of Sob NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prince of Wails NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | The Four Lads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | liver failure ⓘ |
| chartSuccess | multiple number-one hits in early 1950s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-01-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-02-24 ⓘ |
| era | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | American of European descent ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| genre |
jazz
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pop music ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ traditional pop ⓘ |
| hairColor | dark ⓘ |
| hearingImpairment | partially deaf ⓘ |
| influenced |
British pop singers of the 1950s
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Elvis Presley NERFINISHED ⓘ rock and roll singers ⓘ |
| instrument | vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| legalIssue | arrest for soliciting a male undercover officer in 1951 ⓘ |
| medicalEvent | childhood accident leading to hearing loss ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dramatic stage performances
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early 1950s pop hits ⓘ emotional vocal style ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cry
NERFINISHED
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Please Mr. Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ The Little White Cloud That Cried NERFINISHED ⓘ Walkin' My Baby Back Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
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songwriter ⓘ |
| performanceStyle |
dramatic gestures and sobbing
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highly emotional delivery ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dallas, Oregon, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| popularity | major teen idol in early 1950s ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexualOrientation | gay or bisexual ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Description of subject: John is the given name of American singer Johnnie Ray, a popular mid-20th-century pop music star known for his emotional, dramatic vocal style.
Referenced by (1)
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