John T. McDonough
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John T. McDonough was an American lawyer and judge who served as a justice of the New York Court of Appeals in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John T. McDonough canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6572661 — 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 T. McDonough Context triple: [Albany Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, John T. McDonough]
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A.
Robert Emmett McDonough
Robert Emmett McDonough was an American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Georgetown University to name its McDonough School of Business in his honor.
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B.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
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C.
Herbert J. Spinden
Herbert J. Spinden was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his influential work on Mesoamerican civilizations and the development of a chronological correlation for the Maya calendar.
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D.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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E.
John M. Lyle
John M. Lyle was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for helping shape a distinct national architectural style through major public and civic buildings.
- 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 T. McDonough Target entity description: John T. McDonough was an American lawyer and judge who served as a justice of the New York Court of Appeals in the early 20th century.
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A.
Robert Emmett McDonough
Robert Emmett McDonough was an American businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to education led Georgetown University to name its McDonough School of Business in his honor.
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B.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
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C.
Herbert J. Spinden
Herbert J. Spinden was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his influential work on Mesoamerican civilizations and the development of a chronological correlation for the Maya calendar.
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D.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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E.
John M. Lyle
John M. Lyle was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for helping shape a distinct national architectural style through major public and civic buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American judge
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American lawyer ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
judiciary
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law ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York Court of Appeals ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a justice of the New York Court of Appeals in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | justice of the New York Court of Appeals ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York ⓘ |
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 T. McDonough Description of subject: John T. McDonough was an American lawyer and judge who served as a justice of the New York Court of Appeals in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.