Joseph McMinn
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Joseph McMinn was an American politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century, overseeing the state's expansion and relations with Native American tribes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph McMinn canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6320128 — 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: Joseph McMinn Context triple: [Willie Blount, succeededBy, Joseph McMinn]
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A.
Lin McAdam
Lin McAdam is the determined and skilled gunslinger protagonist of the classic 1950 Western film "Winchester '73," portrayed by James Stewart.
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B.
Fred Kilgour
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
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C.
Andrew Macdonald
Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
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D.
Dan McGinty
Dan McGinty is the opportunistic drifter-turned-corrupt politician at the center of Preston Sturges’s 1940 political satire film "The Great McGinty."
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E.
Kevin Smuts
Kevin Smuts is a South African composer best known for scoring the Oscar-winning documentary film "My Octopus Teacher."
- 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: Joseph McMinn Target entity description: Joseph McMinn was an American politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century, overseeing the state's expansion and relations with Native American tribes.
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A.
Lin McAdam
Lin McAdam is the determined and skilled gunslinger protagonist of the classic 1950 Western film "Winchester '73," portrayed by James Stewart.
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B.
Fred Kilgour
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
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C.
Andrew Macdonald
Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
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D.
Dan McGinty
Dan McGinty is the opportunistic drifter-turned-corrupt politician at the center of Preston Sturges’s 1940 political satire film "The Great McGinty."
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E.
Kevin Smuts
Kevin Smuts is a South African composer best known for scoring the Oscar-winning documentary film "My Octopus Teacher."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: Joseph McMinn Description of subject: Joseph McMinn was an American politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century, overseeing the state's expansion and relations with Native American tribes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.