John Latting
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John Latting was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Latting canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4847098 — 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 Latting Context triple: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefendant, John Latting]
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A.
Ellsworth Hoagland
Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
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B.
George Davenport
George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
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C.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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D.
John Dinkeloo
John Dinkeloo was an American architect best known for his partnership with Eero Saarinen and later leadership of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, contributing to numerous influential modernist buildings.
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E.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
- 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 Latting Target entity description: John Latting was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
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A.
Ellsworth Hoagland
Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
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B.
George Davenport
George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
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C.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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D.
John Dinkeloo
John Dinkeloo was an American architect best known for his partnership with Eero Saarinen and later leadership of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, contributing to numerous influential modernist buildings.
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E.
George Hively
George Hively was an American film editor and screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood studio productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal defendant
ⓘ
criminal trial ⓘ person ⓘ |
| coDefendantWith | Ossian Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfTrial | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | 1925 ⓘ |
| dateOfTrial | 1925 ⓘ |
| defendantIn |
1925 Detroit racial violence case
ⓘ
Ossian Sweet trials NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| hasDefendant |
John Latting
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ossian Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
racial violence
ⓘ
self-defense ⓘ |
| location | Detroit, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfTrial | Detroit, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being an African American co-defendant in the Ossian Sweet case ⓘ |
| partOf | group of African American defendants in the Ossian Sweet case ⓘ |
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 Latting Description of subject: John Latting was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.