John A. Wills
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John A. Wills was a notable individual interred at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his prominence in the region’s history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John A. Wills canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5676863 — 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 A. Wills Context triple: [Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C., hasNotableBurials, John A. Wills]
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A.
Charles Weeghman
Charles Weeghman was an early 20th-century Chicago restaurateur and baseball executive best known for founding the Chicago Whales of the Federal League and building the ballpark that became Wrigley Field.
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B.
Doane Harrison
Doane Harrison was an American film editor best known for his long collaboration with director Billy Wilder on numerous classic Hollywood films.
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C.
Christopher Mathewson
Christopher "Christy" Mathewson was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball pitcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in the sport's history and a charter member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
Fred Lebow
Fred Lebow was a Romanian-born American runner and race organizer best known for transforming the New York City Marathon into a world-renowned citywide event.
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E.
John Swope
John Swope was an American photographer and aviator known for his work documenting World War II and Hollywood, and for being married to actress Dorothy McGuire.
- 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 A. Wills Target entity description: John A. Wills was a notable individual interred at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his prominence in the region’s history.
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A.
Charles Weeghman
Charles Weeghman was an early 20th-century Chicago restaurateur and baseball executive best known for founding the Chicago Whales of the Federal League and building the ballpark that became Wrigley Field.
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B.
Doane Harrison
Doane Harrison was an American film editor best known for his long collaboration with director Billy Wilder on numerous classic Hollywood films.
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C.
Christopher Mathewson
Christopher "Christy" Mathewson was an early 20th-century American Major League Baseball pitcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in the sport's history and a charter member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
Fred Lebow
Fred Lebow was a Romanian-born American runner and race organizer best known for transforming the New York City Marathon into a world-renowned citywide event.
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E.
John Swope
John Swope was an American photographer and aviator known for his work documenting World War II and Hollywood, and for being married to actress Dorothy McGuire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| burialPlaceLocatedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| buriedIn | Glenwood Cemetery ⓘ |
| countryOfBurial |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasGraveAt | Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| notableFor | regional prominence in Washington, D.C. history ⓘ |
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 A. Wills Description of subject: John A. Wills was a notable individual interred at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., recognized for his prominence in the region’s history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.