John
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John is the given name of John Hugh McNary, an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6196684 — 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 Context triple: [John Hugh McNary, givenName, John]
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John
John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
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B.
John
John is the given first name of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving and influential first director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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C.
John
John is the given first name of the legendary American professional golfer Byron Nelson, one of the sport’s early great champions.
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D.
John
John is the given name of John H. Hammond Jr., the influential American record producer and talent scout known for discovering and promoting numerous major jazz, blues, and rock musicians.
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E.
John
John is the given name of the late American comedian and actor John Belushi, famed for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in films like "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers."
- 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 Target entity description: John is the given name of John Hugh McNary, an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in the early 20th century.
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John
John is the given name of John M. Harlan II, an influential 20th-century Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court known for his strong advocacy of judicial restraint and civil liberties.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Marshall Harlan, a prominent U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential dissents in civil rights cases.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John Paul Stevens, a long-serving associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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John
John is the given name of John Jay, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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John
John is the given name of John G. Roberts Jr., the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal judge
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human ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States District Court for the District of Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McNary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | law ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | District of Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalSystem | United States federal court system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a federal judge in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| occupation | judge ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon ⓘ |
| workLocation | Oregon 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 Description of subject: John is the given name of John Hugh McNary, an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.