John
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John is the given name of John Maynard Harlan, an American lawyer and politician from Chicago active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14574791 — 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 Context triple: [John Maynard Harlan, givenName, John]
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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 middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
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John
John is the given name of John C. Sheehan, an American organic chemist renowned for achieving the first complete laboratory synthesis of penicillin.
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D.
John
John was a Portuguese royal who held the title of Prince of Brazil and later became King John VI of Portugal.
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John
John is the given name of John Boyle O'Reilly, a 19th-century Irish-born poet, journalist, and civil rights activist who became influential in the United States.
- 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 Target entity description: John is the given name of John Maynard Harlan, an American lawyer and politician from Chicago active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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John
John is the given name of John M. Harlan II, an influential 20th-century Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court known for his strong advocacy of judicial restraint and civil liberties.
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John
John is the given name of John Marshall Harlan, a prominent U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential dissents in civil rights cases.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John Wesley Longyear, an American politician and jurist from the 19th century.
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John
John is the given name of John Peter Altgeld, a prominent 19th-century American politician and reformist governor of Illinois.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John F. Shafroth, an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and Governor of Colorado in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.