John Smith
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John Smith 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 Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4847108 — 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.
Target entity: John Smith Context triple: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefendant, John Smith]
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John
John is the given name of the 19th-century British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, a key figure in liberal thought and utilitarianism.
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John
John is the birth name of American actor Jack Lemmon, a celebrated star of classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
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John
John C. Calhoun was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and political theorist who served as U.S. vice president, senator, and a leading proponent of states’ rights and slavery.
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John
John Alcock was a British aviator best known for making the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside Arthur Whitten Brown.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Trevor, a historical British political figure.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Smith Target entity description: John Smith 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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John Smith
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
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John Smith
John Smith is a high-ranking Nazi official in the alternate-history television series "The Man in the High Castle," whose loyalty, ambition, and moral conflicts drive much of the show's central drama.
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John Smith
John Smith was a 19th-century British officer credited with bringing the Ajanta Caves to modern attention after rediscovering them in 1819.
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John
John is the birth name of American actor Jack Lemmon, a celebrated star of classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
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John
John C. Calhoun was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and political theorist who served as U.S. vice president, senator, and a leading proponent of states’ rights and slavery.
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Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal defendant
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person ⓘ |
| coDefendantWith |
Carlisle McFall
NERFINISHED
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Charles Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Gladys Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonard Morse NERFINISHED ⓘ Norris Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Ossian Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ Otis Sweet NERFINISHED ⓘ Otis Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ William Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1925 ⓘ |
| defendantIn | People v. Sweet et al. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| legalCharge | murder ⓘ |
| legalContext | self-defense in response to racist mob ⓘ |
| locationOfEvent | Detroit, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the African American defendants in the Ossian Sweet trials ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1925 Detroit racial violence case
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Ossian Sweet case NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet trials ⓘ |
| partOf | group of African American men defending Sweet home ⓘ |
| residenceAtTimeOfCase | Detroit, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Smith Description of subject: John Smith 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.