John Doherty
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John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Doherty canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3461774 — 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 Doherty Context triple: [Michael Learned, spouse, John Doherty]
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A.
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty was one of the unarmed civil rights marchers shot and killed by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
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B.
Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor Books.
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C.
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe is an American actor best known for his role as firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto on the television series "Emergency!" and for numerous character roles in film and television.
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D.
James Dougherty
James Dougherty was an American police officer best known as the first husband of Marilyn Monroe before she became a famous actress.
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E.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
- 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 Doherty Target entity description: John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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A.
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty was one of the unarmed civil rights marchers shot and killed by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
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B.
Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor Books.
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C.
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe is an American actor best known for his role as firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto on the television series "Emergency!" and for numerous character roles in film and television.
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D.
James Dougherty
James Dougherty was an American police officer best known as the first husband of Marilyn Monroe before she became a famous actress.
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E.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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human ⓘ human ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Waltons ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Olivia Walton ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Waltons ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Doherty
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Michael Learned ⓘ |
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 Doherty Description of subject: John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.