John Wagner
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John Wagner is a British comics writer best known for co-creating the iconic dystopian lawman Judge Dredd for the science fiction anthology 2000 AD.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Wagner canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2786028 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: John Wagner Context triple: [Judge Dredd, creator, John Wagner]
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A.
Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis is an Australian musician and composer best known for his work with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and for scoring numerous acclaimed films.
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B.
Alan Moore
Alan Moore is a British comic book writer and novelist renowned for groundbreaking works such as "Watchmen," "V for Vendetta," and "From Hell," which revolutionized the graphic novel medium.
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C.
Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker is an American comic book writer best known for his acclaimed runs on titles like Captain America, Daredevil, and Criminal, where he revitalized characters through noir-influenced, character-driven storytelling.
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D.
Richard Johns
Richard Johns is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
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E.
Joe Gilliam
Joe Gilliam was an American football quarterback best known for breaking racial barriers as one of the first Black starting quarterbacks in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s.
- 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 Wagner Target entity description: John Wagner is a British comics writer best known for co-creating the iconic dystopian lawman Judge Dredd for the science fiction anthology 2000 AD.
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A.
Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis is an Australian musician and composer best known for his work with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and for scoring numerous acclaimed films.
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B.
Alan Moore
Alan Moore is a British comic book writer and novelist renowned for groundbreaking works such as "Watchmen," "V for Vendetta," and "From Hell," which revolutionized the graphic novel medium.
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C.
Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker is an American comic book writer best known for his acclaimed runs on titles like Captain America, Daredevil, and Criminal, where he revitalized characters through noir-influenced, character-driven storytelling.
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D.
Richard Johns
Richard Johns is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
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E.
Joe Gilliam
Joe Gilliam was an American football quarterback best known for breaking racial barriers as one of the first Black starting quarterbacks in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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comics writer ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf |
Judge Dredd
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Strontium Dog ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer |
Fleetway Publications
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IPC Magazines ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comic book writing
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comics ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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science fiction comics ⓘ |
| hasRole | writer ⓘ |
| influenced |
Judge Dredd
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surface form:
Judge Dredd franchise
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| influencedGenre | British science fiction comics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating Judge Dredd
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writing for 2000 AD ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
comic books
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comic strips ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
2000 AD
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surface form:
2000 AD stories
A History of Violence ⓘ Judge Dredd ⓘ Judge Dredd ⓘ
surface form:
Judge Dredd: America
Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War ⓘ Strontium Dog ⓘ |
| occupation | comics writer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workPublishedIn |
2000 AD
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Judge Dredd Megazine ⓘ |
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 Wagner Description of subject: John Wagner is a British comics writer best known for co-creating the iconic dystopian lawman Judge Dredd for the science fiction anthology 2000 AD.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shadows of the Empire