John Taylor Wood
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John Taylor Wood was a Confederate naval officer and raider during the American Civil War, known for his daring commerce-destroying operations and close family ties to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Taylor Wood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6195429 — 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 Taylor Wood Context triple: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, John Taylor Wood]
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A.
Charles Arling
Charles Arling was a Canadian-born silent film actor active in early 20th-century American cinema.
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B.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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C.
George Tyler Wood
George Tyler Wood was an American politician who served as the second governor of the state of Texas from 1847 to 1849.
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D.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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E.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
- 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 Taylor Wood Target entity description: John Taylor Wood was a Confederate naval officer and raider during the American Civil War, known for his daring commerce-destroying operations and close family ties to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
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A.
Charles Arling
Charles Arling was a Canadian-born silent film actor active in early 20th-century American cinema.
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B.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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C.
George Tyler Wood
George Tyler Wood was an American politician who served as the second governor of the state of Texas from 1847 to 1849.
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D.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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E.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate naval officer
ⓘ
naval raider ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Confederate States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1830-08-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedVessels | multiple Union merchant ships ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1904-07-19 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | United States Naval Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fledTo | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | John Taylor Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandparent | Zachary Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | one of the most daring officers of the Confederate Navy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
commerce raiding during the American Civil War
ⓘ
daring naval raids against Union shipping ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Confederate States Navy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
commander
ⓘ
lieutenant ⓘ |
| notableAction |
commanded Confederate naval raids along the U.S. Atlantic coast
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conducted raids against Union commerce on the high seas ⓘ led boarding parties from CSS Virginia ⓘ |
| occupation |
naval officer
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privateer ⓘ |
| parent |
Anne Mackall Taylor Wood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Crooke Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Battle of Hampton Roads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postWarResidence | Nova Scotia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForFleeing | to avoid capture by Union authorities after the Civil War ⓘ |
| relative | Jefferson Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeType |
grandson of Zachary Taylor
ⓘ
nephew by marriage of Jefferson Davis ⓘ |
| servedOn | CSS Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1865 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1847 ⓘ |
| side | Confederacy ⓘ |
| spouse | Lola Mackubin 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 Taylor Wood Description of subject: John Taylor Wood was a Confederate naval officer and raider during the American Civil War, known for his daring commerce-destroying operations and close family ties to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.