John Bolton
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John Bolton is an American diplomat, lawyer, and conservative foreign policy hawk who served in senior U.S. national security roles, including as National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Bolton canonical | 4 |
| John Robert Bolton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T510292 — 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 Bolton Context triple: [United States Ambassador to the United Nations (Cabinet-level), officeHeldBy, John Bolton]
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A.
John Negroponte
John Negroponte is an American diplomat and government official who has served in numerous high-level roles, including U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Iraq.
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B.
Brent Scowcroft
Brent Scowcroft was a prominent American national security advisor and retired Air Force lieutenant general who served under multiple U.S. presidents and was highly influential in shaping late 20th-century U.S. foreign policy.
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C.
William J. Casey
William J. Casey was an American lawyer, intelligence officer, and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Ronald Reagan, playing a key role in shaping U.S. Cold War intelligence strategy.
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D.
Henry A. Kissinger
Henry A. Kissinger was a German-born American diplomat and political scientist who served as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, playing a central role in shaping Cold War foreign policy and détente.
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E.
Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson is an American engineer and businessman who served as chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil before becoming the 69th United States Secretary of State under President Donald Trump.
- 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 Bolton Target entity description: John Bolton is an American diplomat, lawyer, and conservative foreign policy hawk who served in senior U.S. national security roles, including as National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump.
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A.
John Negroponte
John Negroponte is an American diplomat and government official who has served in numerous high-level roles, including U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Iraq.
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B.
Brent Scowcroft
Brent Scowcroft was a prominent American national security advisor and retired Air Force lieutenant general who served under multiple U.S. presidents and was highly influential in shaping late 20th-century U.S. foreign policy.
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C.
William J. Casey
William J. Casey was an American lawyer, intelligence officer, and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Ronald Reagan, playing a key role in shaping U.S. Cold War intelligence strategy.
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D.
Henry A. Kissinger
Henry A. Kissinger was a German-born American diplomat and political scientist who served as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, playing a central role in shaping Cold War foreign policy and détente.
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E.
Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson is an American engineer and businessman who served as chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil before becoming the 69th United States Secretary of State under President Donald Trump.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American diplomat
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United States National Security Advisor ⓘ author ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ political commentator ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Donald Trump
ⓘ
George W. Bush ⓘ |
| birthName |
John Bolton
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
John Robert Bolton
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| boardMemberOf | American Enterprise Institute ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-11-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Yale Law School
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | United States government ⓘ |
| endTime |
2006-12-31 (as U.S. Ambassador to the UN)
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2019-09-10 (as National Security Advisor) ⓘ |
| familyName | Bolton ⓘ |
| genreOfWriting | political memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hairColor | white ⓘ |
| hasChild | one daughter (name not widely publicized) ⓘ |
| hasWrittenWork | The Room Where It Happened ⓘ |
| ideology | neoconservatism ⓘ |
| knownFor | hawkish foreign policy views ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| militaryService |
Maryland National Guard
ⓘ
surface form:
Maryland Army National Guard
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| name | John Bolton self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for regime change in adversarial states
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strong support for U.S. unilateralism ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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diplomat ⓘ lawyer ⓘ political commentator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Baltimore, Maryland, United States ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
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Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs ⓘ United States Ambassador to the United Nations (Cabinet-level) ⓘ
surface form:
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
United States National Security Advisor ⓘ |
| religion |
Lutheranism
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surface form:
Lutheranism (commonly reported)
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| residence |
Bethesda, Maryland
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surface form:
Bethesda, Maryland (historical)
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| serviceEndTime | 1976 (Maryland Army National Guard) ⓘ |
| serviceStartTime | 1970 (Maryland Army National Guard) ⓘ |
| spouse | Gretchen Smith Bolton ⓘ |
| startTime |
2005-08-01 (as U.S. Ambassador to the UN)
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2018-04-09 (as National Security Advisor) ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Bolton Description of subject: John Bolton is an American diplomat, lawyer, and conservative foreign policy hawk who served in senior U.S. national security roles, including as National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Robert Bolton