John Marshall
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John Marshall was a Scottish sculptor known for his architectural and public works, including prominent sculptures in Edinburgh.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Marshall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T803781 — 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 Marshall Context triple: [St Andrew's House, Edinburgh, hasSculpturalWorkBy, John Marshall]
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John Marshall
John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, whose landmark opinions, especially in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review and greatly strengthened the Supreme Court’s authority.
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John W. Marshall
John W. Marshall is an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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John Jay
John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
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D.
Roger Brooke Taney
Roger Brooke Taney was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, best known for authoring the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision.
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E.
Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite
Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite was the seventh Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1874 to 1888 and presiding over key Reconstruction-era and civil rights cases.
- 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 Marshall Target entity description: John Marshall was a Scottish sculptor known for his architectural and public works, including prominent sculptures in Edinburgh.
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A.
John Marshall
John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, whose landmark opinions, especially in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review and greatly strengthened the Supreme Court’s authority.
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B.
John W. Marshall
John W. Marshall is an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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C.
John Jay
John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, co-author of The Federalist Papers, first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key figure in the early formation of the U.S. government.
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D.
Roger Brooke Taney
Roger Brooke Taney was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, best known for authoring the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision.
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E.
Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite
Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite was the seventh Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1874 to 1888 and presiding over key Reconstruction-era and civil rights cases.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish artist
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person ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architectural sculpture
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public sculpture ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| genre | architectural and public works ⓘ |
| knownFor |
architectural sculpture in Edinburgh
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public sculptures in Edinburgh ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWorkLocation | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| occupation | sculptor ⓘ |
| workLocation | Edinburgh ⓘ |
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 Marshall Description of subject: John Marshall was a Scottish sculptor known for his architectural and public works, including prominent sculptures in Edinburgh.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.