John Stevenson
E1037072
John Stevenson is an alternative name used for John Stephenson, who may be referenced under either spelling in various records or contexts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Stevenson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13163648 — 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: John Stevenson Context triple: [John Stephenson, alsoKnownAs, John Stevenson]
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A.
Tim Stevenson
Tim Stevenson is a British public servant who has served as the ceremonial representative of the monarch in Oxfordshire.
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B.
Carl Stevenson
Carl Stevenson is a fictional character from the American sitcom "The Gregory Hines Show."
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C.
Charles Stevenson
Charles Stevenson was an early 20th-century American film actor known for his roles in silent comedies, including the 1922 film "Grandma's Boy."
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D.
Jack Steadman
Jack Steadman is a British musician best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club.
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E.
Gary Stevenson
Gary Stevenson is the husband of the late American author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich.
- 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: John Stevenson Target entity description: John Stevenson is an alternative name used for John Stephenson, who may be referenced under either spelling in various records or contexts.
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A.
Tim Stevenson
Tim Stevenson is a British public servant who has served as the ceremonial representative of the monarch in Oxfordshire.
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B.
Carl Stevenson
Carl Stevenson is a fictional character from the American sitcom "The Gregory Hines Show."
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C.
Charles Stevenson
Charles Stevenson was an early 20th-century American film actor known for his roles in silent comedies, including the 1922 film "Grandma's Boy."
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D.
Jack Steadman
Jack Steadman is a British musician best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club.
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E.
Gary Stevenson
Gary Stevenson is the husband of the late American author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
John Stephenson
ⓘ
John Stevenson ⓘ |
| hasAmbiguousReferenceScope | multiple possible individuals named John Stephenson / Stevenson ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant | John Stephenson ⓘ |
| hasUncertainIdentification | true ⓘ |
| mayAppearInRecordsUnderSpelling | John Stephenson ⓘ |
| mayBeReferencedAs | John Stephenson ⓘ |
| nameVariantOf |
John Stephenson
ⓘ
John Stevenson ⓘ |
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: John Stevenson Description of subject: John Stevenson is an alternative name used for John Stephenson, who may be referenced under either spelling in various records or contexts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.