John
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John is the given name of John Cornford, a British poet and communist who was killed while fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
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 T15664723 — 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 Cornford, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John W. Mauchly, the American physicist and co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
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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 is the given first name of the 19th-century English theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Lennard-Jones, a pioneering British theoretical chemist known for his work on intermolecular forces and the Lennard-Jones potential.
- 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 Cornford, a British poet and communist who was killed while fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
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John
John is the given name of the American poet and scholar John Berryman, a key figure in the confessional poetry movement.
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John
John is the given name of J. C. Squire, a prominent British poet, literary critic, and editor of the early 20th century.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Betjeman, a renowned 20th-century English poet, writer, and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
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John
John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
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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
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.