John
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John Burnside is a Scottish poet and novelist known for his lyrical explorations of memory, nature, and personal history.
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 T18586304 — 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 Burnside, 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 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 John Eales, the renowned former Australian rugby union captain and World Cup winner.
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John
John is the given name of the English jurist and scholar John Selden, a prominent 17th-century authority on law and constitutional history.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Coke, an English statesman who served as Secretary of State under King Charles I in the early 17th century.
- 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 Burnside is a Scottish poet and novelist known for his lyrical explorations of memory, nature, and personal history.
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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 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 Ashbery, an influential American poet associated with the New York School.
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John
John is the given name of John Bowen, a British novelist and playwright known for his crime and speculative fiction.
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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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.