Colonel John By
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Colonel John By was a British military engineer best known for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal in Canada, around which the city of Ottawa later developed.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colonel John By canonical | 3 |
| Lieutenant-Colonel John By | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22360052 — 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: Colonel John By Context triple: [Colonel By Lake, namedAfter, Colonel John By]
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A.
Charles Wolfe
Charles Wolfe was an Irish poet and clergyman best known for his elegiac poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna."
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B.
William Ormsby
William Ormsby was a 19th-century American militia leader best known for commanding volunteer forces in the early stages of the Paiute War in Nevada, where he was killed in battle.
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C.
William Roy
William Roy was an 18th-century Scottish military engineer and surveyor whose pioneering mapping work laid the foundations for Britain’s Ordnance Survey.
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D.
Colonel William Baillie
Colonel William Baillie was a British East India Company officer best known for his ill-fated command and capture during the 1780 campaigns of the Second Anglo-Mysore War against Tipu Sultan.
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E.
Charles Bagot
Charles Bagot was a British diplomat and colonial administrator best known for negotiating the Rush–Bagot Agreement that helped demilitarize the U.S.–Canada border after the War of 1812.
- 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: Colonel John By Target entity description: Colonel John By was a British military engineer best known for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal in Canada, around which the city of Ottawa later developed.
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A.
Charles Wolfe
Charles Wolfe was an Irish poet and clergyman best known for his elegiac poem "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna."
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B.
William Ormsby
William Ormsby was a 19th-century American militia leader best known for commanding volunteer forces in the early stages of the Paiute War in Nevada, where he was killed in battle.
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C.
William Roy
William Roy was an 18th-century Scottish military engineer and surveyor whose pioneering mapping work laid the foundations for Britain’s Ordnance Survey.
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D.
Colonel William Baillie
Colonel William Baillie was a British East India Company officer best known for his ill-fated command and capture during the 1780 campaigns of the Second Anglo-Mysore War against Tipu Sultan.
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E.
Charles Bagot
Charles Bagot was a British diplomat and colonial administrator best known for negotiating the Rush–Bagot Agreement that helped demilitarize the U.S.–Canada border after the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Byron Avenue (Ottawa)?
subject linked to:
Byron Avenue (Ottawa)?
linked to: Colonel John By