John J. Tominac
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John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John J. Tominac canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2407140 — 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. Tominac Context triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, John J. Tominac]
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A.
John R. Leonetti
John R. Leonetti is an American cinematographer and film director best known for his work on major horror films, including serving as director of photography on "The Conjuring."
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B.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
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C.
James L. Buckley
James L. Buckley was an American conservative politician, jurist, and author who served as a U.S. Senator from New York and later as a federal appellate judge.
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D.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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E.
William J. Guarnere
William J. Guarnere was a World War II U.S. Army paratrooper best known as a member of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose experiences were depicted in the book and miniseries "Band of Brothers."
- 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. Tominac Target entity description: John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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A.
John R. Leonetti
John R. Leonetti is an American cinematographer and film director best known for his work on major horror films, including serving as director of photography on "The Conjuring."
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B.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
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C.
James L. Buckley
James L. Buckley was an American conservative politician, jurist, and author who served as a U.S. Senator from New York and later as a federal appellate judge.
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D.
Joseph B. Keenan
Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
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E.
William J. Guarnere
William J. Guarnere was a World War II U.S. Army paratrooper best known as a member of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose experiences were depicted in the book and miniseries "Band of Brothers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Medal of Honor recipient
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United States Army soldier ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Tominac ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer in the United States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | extraordinary heroism during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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. Tominac Description of subject: John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.