John Augustine Washington
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John Augustine Washington was an 18th-century Virginia planter, politician, and member of the prominent Washington family, known as a younger brother of George Washington.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Augustine Washington canonical | 3 |
| Samuel Washington | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4749588 — 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 Augustine Washington Context triple: [Lawrence Washington, sibling, John Augustine Washington]
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A.
James Wood Johnson
James Wood Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson.
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B.
Frederick Wilson
Frederick Wilson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "On the Beat."
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C.
Walter Washington
Walter Washington was an American politician who became the first modern home-rule mayor of Washington, D.C., helping guide the city through a crucial period of political transition and urban change in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Thomas Washington Daniel
Thomas Washington Daniel is one of the sons of American journalist and former New York Times managing editor Clifton Daniel and his wife, Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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E.
Charles Coffin Little
Charles Coffin Little was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential publishing house Little, Brown and Company.
- 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 Augustine Washington Target entity description: John Augustine Washington was an 18th-century Virginia planter, politician, and member of the prominent Washington family, known as a younger brother of George Washington.
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A.
James Wood Johnson
James Wood Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare and consumer goods company Johnson & Johnson.
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B.
Frederick Wilson
Frederick Wilson is a film editor known for his work on the movie "On the Beat."
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C.
Walter Washington
Walter Washington was an American politician who became the first modern home-rule mayor of Washington, D.C., helping guide the city through a crucial period of political transition and urban change in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Thomas Washington Daniel
Thomas Washington Daniel is one of the sons of American journalist and former New York Times managing editor Clifton Daniel and his wife, Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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E.
Charles Coffin Little
Charles Coffin Little was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential publishing house Little, Brown and Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
member of the Washington family
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person ⓘ planter ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| child |
Bushrod Washington
NERFINISHED
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Corbin Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ John Augustine Washington Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colony of Virginia
NERFINISHED
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Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Augustine Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landOwnership | plantations in Virginia ⓘ |
| memberOf | Virginia House of Burgesses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Augustine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Ball Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Washington family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a younger brother of George Washington
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being an 18th-century Virginia planter ⓘ service in the Virginia House of Burgesses ⓘ |
| occupation |
planter
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politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the Virginia House of Burgesses ⓘ |
| relative |
Charles Washington
NERFINISHED
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Lawrence Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Mildred Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Berkeley County, Virginia
NERFINISHED
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Bushfield plantation NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Vernon (occasionally) ⓘ Stafford County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Westmoreland County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | George Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | Virginia gentry ⓘ |
| spouse | Hannah Bushrod Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
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 Augustine Washington Description of subject: John Augustine Washington was an 18th-century Virginia planter, politician, and member of the prominent Washington family, known as a younger brother of George Washington.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Samuel Washington
this entity surface form:
Samuel Washington