John "Doc" Bradley
E492116
Iwo Jima veteran
United States Navy hospital corpsman
United States Navy sailor
World War II veteran
flag raiser at Iwo Jima
human
John "Doc" Bradley was a U.S. Navy corpsman and one of the Marines who helped raise the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, later becoming widely known through books and film portrayals of the event.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John "Doc" Bradley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5084585 — 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 "Doc" Bradley Context triple: [Flags of Our Fathers, mainCharacter, John "Doc" Bradley]
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A.
Dr. Fred Mallory
Dr. Fred Mallory is a character in the 1939 science-fiction movie serial "The Phantom Creeps," which stars Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist.
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B.
Dr. Alfred Jones
Dr. Alfred Jones is a reserved British fisheries scientist whose unlikely involvement in a visionary project to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemeni desert drives the plot of the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
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C.
Dr. John Prentice
Dr. John Prentice is the accomplished, idealistic Black physician whose interracial relationship with a white woman drives the central social and moral conflict in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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D.
Dr. James Harvey
Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
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E.
Dr. Jack Griffin
Dr. Jack Griffin is the brilliant but unhinged scientist who becomes the titular invisible man in the classic 1933 horror film "The Invisible Man."
- 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 "Doc" Bradley Target entity description: John "Doc" Bradley was a U.S. Navy corpsman and one of the Marines who helped raise the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, later becoming widely known through books and film portrayals of the event.
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A.
Dr. Fred Mallory
Dr. Fred Mallory is a character in the 1939 science-fiction movie serial "The Phantom Creeps," which stars Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist.
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B.
Dr. Alfred Jones
Dr. Alfred Jones is a reserved British fisheries scientist whose unlikely involvement in a visionary project to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemeni desert drives the plot of the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
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C.
Dr. John Prentice
Dr. John Prentice is the accomplished, idealistic Black physician whose interracial relationship with a white woman drives the central social and moral conflict in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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D.
Dr. James Harvey
Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
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E.
Dr. Jack Griffin
Dr. Jack Griffin is the brilliant but unhinged scientist who becomes the titular invisible man in the classic 1933 horror film "The Invisible Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iwo Jima veteran
ⓘ
United States Navy hospital corpsman ⓘ United States Navy sailor ⓘ World War II veteran ⓘ flag raiser at Iwo Jima ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Navy Cross
ⓘ
Presidential Unit Citation ⓘ
linked to:
Presidential Unit Citation (United States)
Purple Heart ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1923-07-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Antigo, Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Antigo, Wisconsin
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| burialPlace | Queen of Peace Cemetery, Antigo, Wisconsin, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| child | James Bradley ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1994-01-11 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Antigo, Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Antigo, Wisconsin
|
| employer | Bradley Funeral Home ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Pharmacist's Mate Second Class
ⓘ
linked to:
Navy Hospital Corpsmen
|
| militaryUnit |
28th Marine Regiment
ⓘ
5th Marine Division ⓘ |
| name |
John Henry Bradley
ⓘ
linked to:
John Bradley
|
| nickname | Doc Bradley ⓘ |
| notableWork | participation in the flag raising on Iwo Jima ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 8 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
funeral director ⓘ |
| participatedIn | first flag raising on Mount Suribachi ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Flags of Our Fathers (2006 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
film "Flags of Our Fathers"
Flags of Our Fathers (book) ⓘ
linked to:
film "Flags of Our Fathers"
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Antigo, Wisconsin, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Antigo, Wisconsin
|
| serviceNumber | unknown ⓘ |
| spouse | Betty Van Gorp Bradley ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical research on Iwo Jima flag raisers ⓘ |
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 "Doc" Bradley Description of subject: John "Doc" Bradley was a U.S. Navy corpsman and one of the Marines who helped raise the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, later becoming widely known through books and film portrayals of the event.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Flags of Our Fathers"