John Parker
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John Parker was an American colonial militia captain best known for leading the Lexington militia at the opening skirmishes of the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Parker canonical | 1 |
| William Prescott | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23384 — 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 Parker Context triple: [Battles of Lexington and Concord, commander, John Parker]
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A.
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith and patriot best known for his midnight ride to warn colonial militia of approaching British forces at the start of the American Revolution.
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B.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Warren Delano Jr.
Warren Delano Jr. was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and China trader best known as the maternal grandfather of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
John Taylor Johnston
John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
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E.
Franklin
Franklin is the given name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
- 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 Parker Target entity description: John Parker was an American colonial militia captain best known for leading the Lexington militia at the opening skirmishes of the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith and patriot best known for his midnight ride to warn colonial militia of approaching British forces at the start of the American Revolution.
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B.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Warren Delano Jr.
Warren Delano Jr. was a prominent 19th-century American merchant and China trader best known as the maternal grandfather of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
John Taylor Johnston
John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
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E.
Franklin
Franklin is the given name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military officer
ⓘ
militia captain ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn | Patriots’ Day observances in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | British America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Parker ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasMonument | Captain John Parker statue on Lexington Green ⓘ |
| hasQuote | Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Theodore Parker ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolution
Colonial America ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
New England colonial militias
ⓘ
surface form:
Massachusetts militia
|
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battles of Lexington and Concord ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading the Lexington militia at the opening skirmishes of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lexington, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Lexington, Province of Massachusetts Bay
|
| placeOfDeath | Lexington, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence | Lexington, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| role | commander of the Lexington militia ⓘ |
| servedIn |
Seven Years' War
ⓘ
surface form:
French and Indian War
|
| spouse | Lydia Moore Parker ⓘ |
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 Parker Description of subject: John Parker was an American colonial militia captain best known for leading the Lexington militia at the opening skirmishes of the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Prescott