John Wright
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John Wright was an English conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I and blow up the Houses of Parliament.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Wright canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5454218 — 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 Wright Context triple: [Gunpowder Plot, participant, John Wright]
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A.
John Wright
John Wright is a film editor best known for his work on popular Hollywood comedies, including the Adam Sandler movie "The Waterboy."
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B.
Lib Wright
Lib Wright is the skeptical English nurse protagonist of Emma Donoghue’s novel and its film adaptation "The Wonder," sent to rural Ireland in the 19th century to investigate a girl claiming to live without food.
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C.
Michael Wright
Michael Wright is an American actor known for his roles in films and television series such as "The Five Heartbeats," "Sugar Hill," and the HBO series "Oz."
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D.
Ben Wright
Ben Wright was a British-born American character actor best known for his voice work in classic Disney animated films, including a role in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians."
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E.
Cam Atkinson
Cam Atkinson is an American professional ice hockey right winger known for his goal-scoring ability and long tenure as a key offensive player in the NHL.
- 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 Wright Target entity description: John Wright was an English conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I and blow up the Houses of Parliament.
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A.
John Wright
John Wright is a film editor best known for his work on popular Hollywood comedies, including the Adam Sandler movie "The Waterboy."
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B.
Lib Wright
Lib Wright is the skeptical English nurse protagonist of Emma Donoghue’s novel and its film adaptation "The Wonder," sent to rural Ireland in the 19th century to investigate a girl claiming to live without food.
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C.
Michael Wright
Michael Wright is an American actor known for his roles in films and television series such as "The Five Heartbeats," "Sugar Hill," and the HBO series "Oz."
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D.
Ben Wright
Ben Wright was a British-born American character actor best known for his voice work in classic Disney animated films, including a role in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians."
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E.
Cam Atkinson
Cam Atkinson is an American professional ice hockey right winger known for his goal-scoring ability and long tenure as a key offensive player in the NHL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English conspirator
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person ⓘ |
| activity | involved in planning the Gunpowder Plot ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Guy Fawkes
NERFINISHED
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Robert Catesby NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | unrecorded or uncertain ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| criminalCharge | high treason (posthumously) ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1568 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 8 November 1605 ⓘ |
| era |
Elizabethan era
NERFINISHED
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Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | John Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early 17th century
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late 16th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Gunpowder Plot
NERFINISHED
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attempted assassination of King James I of England ⓘ plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed while resisting arrest ⓘ |
| memberOf | Catholic recusants in England ⓘ |
| name | John Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
fled London after discovery of the Gunpowder Plot
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siege at Holbeche House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent |
James I of England
NERFINISHED
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Parliament of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Protestant rule in England ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Gunpowder Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of England
NERFINISHED
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Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Holbeche House
NERFINISHED
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Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Staffordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-Catholic ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Christopher Wright
NERFINISHED
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John Wright 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 Wright Description of subject: John Wright was an English conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I and blow up the Houses of Parliament.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gunpowder Plot