John Eaton
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John Eaton was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Eaton canonical | 2 |
| John H. Eaton | 2 |
| John Henry Eaton | 2 |
| John C. Eaton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4657468 — 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 Eaton Context triple: [Eaton County, Michigan, namedAfter, John Eaton]
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A.
William Carson
William Carson was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron in Eureka, California, whose wealth and status are epitomized by the ornate Victorian Carson Mansion built as his residence.
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B.
Ben Young Mason
Ben Young Mason is a television writer and producer best known for creating the science fiction series "Mars."
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C.
William Caswell
William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
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D.
John Marshall Clemens
John Marshall Clemens was an American lawyer, judge, and the father of author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
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E.
James Moore
James Moore was a colonial governor of Carolina known for leading military expeditions against Spanish Florida in the early 18th century.
- 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 Eaton Target entity description: John Eaton was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson.
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A.
William Carson
William Carson was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron in Eureka, California, whose wealth and status are epitomized by the ornate Victorian Carson Mansion built as his residence.
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B.
Ben Young Mason
Ben Young Mason is a television writer and producer best known for creating the science fiction series "Mars."
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C.
William Caswell
William Caswell was the son of Richard Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor and a prominent figure in the American Revolutionary era.
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D.
John Marshall Clemens
John Marshall Clemens was an American lawyer, judge, and the father of author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
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E.
James Moore
James Moore was a colonial governor of Carolina known for leading military expeditions against Spanish Florida in the early 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Eaton Description of subject: John Eaton was a 19th-century American politician and U.S. Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Governor Duval
linked to: John Eaton