Cornelius Johnson
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Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelius Johnson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T428592 — 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: Cornelius Johnson Context triple: [1936 Summer Olympics, notableAthlete, Cornelius Johnson]
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A.
Holton D. Robinson
Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
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B.
Richmond K. Turner
Richmond K. Turner was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II, best known for his pivotal role in planning and directing major amphibious operations in the Pacific Theater.
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C.
Henry Lyman Morehouse
Henry Lyman Morehouse was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and educator whose advocacy for African American higher education led to a prominent historically Black college being named in his honor.
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D.
Horace King
Horace King was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer, best known for designing and building numerous covered bridges throughout the American South, despite being born into slavery.
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E.
Armond Hill
Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
- 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: Cornelius Johnson Target entity description: Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
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A.
Holton D. Robinson
Holton D. Robinson was an American civil engineer noted for his work on major suspension bridges in the early 20th century.
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B.
Richmond K. Turner
Richmond K. Turner was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II, best known for his pivotal role in planning and directing major amphibious operations in the Pacific Theater.
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C.
Henry Lyman Morehouse
Henry Lyman Morehouse was a 19th-century American Baptist minister and educator whose advocacy for African American higher education led to a prominent historically Black college being named in his honor.
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D.
Horace King
Horace King was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer, best known for designing and building numerous covered bridges throughout the American South, despite being born into slavery.
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E.
Armond Hill
Armond Hill is a former American basketball player and coach best known for his standout collegiate career at Princeton University and subsequent role as an NBA guard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athlete
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high jumper ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Olympic gold medal ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lobar pneumonia ⓘ |
| competitionClass | men's high jump ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-08-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1946-02-15 ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| event | men's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelius ⓘ |
| medalType | gold medal ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Team USA
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Olympic track and field team
|
| notableFor |
challenging Nazi racial ideology through athletic success
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winning high jump gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics ⓘ |
| occupation | athlete ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin)
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surface form:
1936 Summer Olympics
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| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Olympic champion in men's high jump ⓘ |
| recordType | Olympic record ⓘ |
| setRecord | Olympic record in men's high jump ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport |
athletics
ⓘ
high jump ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
|
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: Cornelius Johnson Description of subject: Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
1936 Summer Olympics