John Steele
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John Steele was an American paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne Division famously known for dangling from the church steeple in Sainte-Mère-Église during the D-Day landings in World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Steele canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1983136 — 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 Steele Context triple: [Sainte-Mère-Église, notablePersonAssociated, John Steele]
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A.
John Steele
John Steele was an American statesman who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
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B.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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C.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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D.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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E.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
- 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 Steele Target entity description: John Steele was an American paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne Division famously known for dangling from the church steeple in Sainte-Mère-Église during the D-Day landings in World War II.
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A.
John Steele
John Steele was an American statesman who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
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B.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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C.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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D.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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E.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American paratrooper
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Battle of Normandy
ⓘ
surface form:
Normandy campaign
Sainte-Mère-Église ⓘ
surface form:
Sainte-Mère-Église church
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Steele ⓘ |
| genre | military history subject ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
commemorative plaque in Sainte-Mère-Église
ⓘ
effigy on the church of Sainte-Mère-Église ⓘ |
| hasRepresentationIn |
The Longest Day
ⓘ
surface form:
film "The Longest Day"
|
| hasWikipediaArticle | John Steele (paratrooper) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
ⓘ
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division ⓘ
surface form:
82nd Airborne Division
|
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | paratrooper ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
ⓘ
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division ⓘ
surface form:
82nd Airborne Division
|
| notableEvent | parachute caught on the church steeple in Sainte-Mère-Église ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most famous American paratroopers of D-Day
ⓘ
dangling from the church steeple in Sainte-Mère-Église during the D-Day landings ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
D-Day
ⓘ
Battle of Normandy ⓘ
surface form:
Normandy landings
|
| placeOfActivity |
Normandy
ⓘ
Sainte-Mère-Église ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Red Buttons ⓘ |
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 Steele Description of subject: John Steele was an American paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne Division famously known for dangling from the church steeple in Sainte-Mère-Église during the D-Day landings in World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.