John T. Ford
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John T. Ford was a 19th-century American theater manager and impresario best known for owning and operating Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John T. Ford canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1480636 — 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 T. Ford Context triple: [Ford's Theatre, namedAfter, John T. Ford]
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A.
Paul Cox
Paul Cox was a Dutch-born Australian filmmaker renowned for his intimate, character-driven art-house films and his key role in the Australian New Wave cinema movement.
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B.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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C.
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is an American politician and former Arizona state senator best known for championing hardline immigration legislation, including the controversial SB 1070 law.
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D.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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E.
Rex Matheson
Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
- 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 T. Ford Target entity description: John T. Ford was a 19th-century American theater manager and impresario best known for owning and operating Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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A.
Paul Cox
Paul Cox was a Dutch-born Australian filmmaker renowned for his intimate, character-driven art-house films and his key role in the Australian New Wave cinema movement.
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B.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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C.
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is an American politician and former Arizona state senator best known for championing hardline immigration legislation, including the controversial SB 1070 law.
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D.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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E.
Rex Matheson
Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
impresario ⓘ person ⓘ theatre manager ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Abraham Lincoln
ⓘ
Ford's Theatre ⓘ |
| businessSector |
entertainment
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Ford's Theatre ⓘ |
| era | American Civil War era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
theatre management ⓘ |
| genre | live theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasRole |
manager of Ford's Theatre
ⓘ
owner of Ford's Theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
managing Ford's Theatre at the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination
ⓘ
owning Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | John T. Ford self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Abraham Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ford's Theatre
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surface form:
Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
|
| occupation |
impresario
ⓘ
producer ⓘ theatre manager ⓘ theatre owner ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Baltimore, Maryland
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| residence |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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surface form:
Baltimore, Maryland
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: John T. Ford Description of subject: John T. Ford was a 19th-century American theater manager and impresario best known for owning and operating Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.