Charles Johnson
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Charles Johnson was the son of U.S. President Andrew Johnson and First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Johnson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6679544 — 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: Charles Johnson Context triple: [Eliza McCardle Johnson, child, Charles Johnson]
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A.
Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher best known for his National Book Award–winning novel "Middle Passage" and his explorations of African American experience, history, and Buddhist thought.
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B.
Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan was an American stage, film, and television actor known for his intense character roles in movies such as "Logan's Run," "The Hunt for Red October," and "Gettysburg."
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C.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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D.
Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
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E.
Joseph Delaney
Joseph Delaney was a British author best known for his dark fantasy series "The Wardstone Chronicles," which inspired the film "Seventh Son."
- 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: Charles Johnson Target entity description: Charles Johnson was the son of U.S. President Andrew Johnson and First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson.
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A.
Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher best known for his National Book Award–winning novel "Middle Passage" and his explorations of African American experience, history, and Buddhist thought.
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B.
Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan was an American stage, film, and television actor known for his intense character roles in movies such as "Logan's Run," "The Hunt for Red October," and "Gettysburg."
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C.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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D.
Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
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E.
Joseph Delaney
Joseph Delaney was a British author best known for his dark fantasy series "The Wardstone Chronicles," which inspired the film "Seventh Son."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| childOf |
Andrew Johnson
ⓘ
Eliza McCardle Johnson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| father | Andrew Johnson ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasRoleInFamily | son of a U.S. president ⓘ |
| mother | Eliza McCardle Johnson ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Johnson family ⓘ |
| relative |
Andrew Johnson
ⓘ
Eliza McCardle Johnson ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Andrew Johnson Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Andrew Johnson
Martha Johnson Patterson ⓘ Mary Johnson Stover ⓘ Robert Johnson ⓘ |
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: Charles Johnson Description of subject: Charles Johnson was the son of U.S. President Andrew Johnson and First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.