John J. McVeigh
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John J. McVeigh was a United States military serviceman whose burial at Golden Gate National Cemetery signifies his status as a veteran honored for his service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John J. McVeigh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2407146 — 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 J. McVeigh Context triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, John J. McVeigh]
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A.
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist best known for perpetrating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil before 9/11.
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B.
Terry Nichols
Terry Nichols is an American domestic terrorist best known for helping plan and carry out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing alongside Timothy McVeigh.
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C.
Bernhard Goetz
Bernhard Goetz is an American man who gained national notoriety in the 1980s as the "Subway Vigilante" after shooting four teenagers on a New York City subway train, sparking intense debate over crime, self-defense, and race.
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D.
John O’Neill
John O’Neill was a real-life FBI counterterrorism expert known for his early warnings about al-Qaeda and is prominently portrayed as a central figure in the book and TV adaptation "The Looming Tower."
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E.
Christopher Wallace
Christopher Wallace is an American journalist and television news anchor known for his incisive political interviews and long career at major U.S. networks.
- 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 J. McVeigh Target entity description: John J. McVeigh was a United States military serviceman whose burial at Golden Gate National Cemetery signifies his status as a veteran honored for his service.
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A.
Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist best known for perpetrating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil before 9/11.
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B.
Terry Nichols
Terry Nichols is an American domestic terrorist best known for helping plan and carry out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing alongside Timothy McVeigh.
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C.
Bernhard Goetz
Bernhard Goetz is an American man who gained national notoriety in the 1980s as the "Subway Vigilante" after shooting four teenagers on a New York City subway train, sparking intense debate over crime, self-defense, and race.
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D.
John O’Neill
John O’Neill was a real-life FBI counterterrorism expert known for his early warnings about al-Qaeda and is prominently portrayed as a central figure in the book and TV adaptation "The Looming Tower."
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E.
Christopher Wallace
Christopher Wallace is an American journalist and television news anchor known for his incisive political interviews and long career at major U.S. networks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States military personnel
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human ⓘ |
| burialSignificance | honored as a United States veteran at a national cemetery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasHonor | status as a veteran ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Armed Forces ⓘ |
| notableFor | military service for the United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Golden Gate National Cemetery ⓘ |
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 J. McVeigh Description of subject: John J. McVeigh was a United States military serviceman whose burial at Golden Gate National Cemetery signifies his status as a veteran honored for his service.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.