John Poindexter
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John Poindexter is a retired U.S. Navy admiral and government official best known for serving as National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan and for his central role in the Iran-Contra affair.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Poindexter canonical | 2 |
| Poindexter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4968660 — 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 Poindexter Context triple: [Frank Carlucci, precededByAsNationalSecurityAdvisor, John Poindexter]
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A.
Dennis Spooner
Dennis Spooner was a British television writer and script editor best known for his influential work on early Doctor Who and other popular 1960s adventure and spy series.
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B.
Wilbur Fisk
Wilbur Fisk was a prominent 19th-century American Methodist minister and educator who served as the first president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
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C.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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D.
Mark Hoffman
Mark Hoffman is a fictional serial killer and primary antagonist in the "Saw" horror film franchise, known for continuing Jigsaw’s deadly games.
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E.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
- 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 Poindexter Target entity description: John Poindexter is a retired U.S. Navy admiral and government official best known for serving as National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan and for his central role in the Iran-Contra affair.
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A.
Dennis Spooner
Dennis Spooner was a British television writer and script editor best known for his influential work on early Doctor Who and other popular 1960s adventure and spy series.
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B.
Wilbur Fisk
Wilbur Fisk was a prominent 19th-century American Methodist minister and educator who served as the first president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
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C.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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D.
Mark Hoffman
Mark Hoffman is a fictional serial killer and primary antagonist in the "Saw" horror film franchise, known for continuing Jigsaw’s deadly games.
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E.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
National Security Advisor of the United States
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United States Navy admiral ⓘ government official ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Ronald Reagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bronze Star Medal
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Defense Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Meritorious Service Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-08-12 ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Science
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Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ Master of Science ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California Institute of Technology
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United States Naval Academy ⓘ |
| employer |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
NERFINISHED
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National Security Council NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Department of Defense NERFINISHED ⓘ United States government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1986-11-25 ⓘ |
| familyName | Poindexter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | engineering ⓘ |
| fullName | John Marlan Poindexter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | four sons ⓘ |
| laterWork |
consultant in information technology
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researcher in information systems ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | admiral ⓘ |
| notableFor | central role in the Iran–Contra affair ⓘ |
| notableWork | Total Information Awareness program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
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national security advisor ⓘ naval officer ⓘ |
| participantIn | Iran–Contra affair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Odon, Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Deputy National Security Advisor
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Director of the Information Awareness Office ⓘ National Security Advisor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Robert McFarlane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAs | National Security Advisor of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Linda Poindexter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1985-12-04 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Frank Carlucci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Poindexter Description of subject: John Poindexter is a retired U.S. Navy admiral and government official best known for serving as National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan and for his central role in the Iran-Contra affair.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Poindexter