John Sleeper Clarke
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John Sleeper Clarke was a 19th-century American comic actor and theater manager, known for his successful stage career in both the United States and England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Sleeper Clarke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5402592 — 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 Sleeper Clarke Context triple: [Asia Booth Clarke, spouse, John Sleeper Clarke]
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A.
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1916 to 1922.
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B.
James P. Clarke
James P. Clarke was an American Democratic politician from Arkansas who served as a U.S. senator and briefly held the role of President pro tempore of the Senate in the early 20th century.
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C.
Ellis Clarke
Ellis Clarke was a Trinidadian lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who became the first President of Trinidad and Tobago after serving as its last Governor-General.
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D.
Thomas Campbell Clark
Thomas Campbell Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as U.S. Attorney General and later as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967.
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E.
John Randolph Tucker
John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
- 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 Sleeper Clarke Target entity description: John Sleeper Clarke was a 19th-century American comic actor and theater manager, known for his successful stage career in both the United States and England.
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A.
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1916 to 1922.
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B.
James P. Clarke
James P. Clarke was an American Democratic politician from Arkansas who served as a U.S. senator and briefly held the role of President pro tempore of the Senate in the early 20th century.
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C.
Ellis Clarke
Ellis Clarke was a Trinidadian lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who became the first President of Trinidad and Tobago after serving as its last Governor-General.
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D.
Thomas Campbell Clark
Thomas Campbell Clark was an American lawyer and jurist who served as U.S. Attorney General and later as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967.
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E.
John Randolph Tucker
John Randolph Tucker was a 19th-century American lawyer, law professor, and Democratic politician who served as Attorney General of Virginia and later as a U.S. Representative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ theatre manager ⓘ |
| activeIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Clarke ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | theatre ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
stage actor
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theater manager ⓘ |
| knownFor |
successful comic stage career in England
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successful comic stage career in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | John Sleeper Clarke ⓘ |
| notableRole | comic roles in 19th-century theatre ⓘ |
| notableWork |
stage comedy roles in England
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stage comedy roles in the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comic actor ⓘ theatre manager ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
England
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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How these facts were elicited
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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 Sleeper Clarke Description of subject: John Sleeper Clarke was a 19th-century American comic actor and theater manager, known for his successful stage career in both the United States and England.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.