William Johnson
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William Johnson is the birth name of Holly Johnson, the English artist and former lead singer of the pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8001745 — 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: William Johnson Context triple: [Holly Johnson, alsoKnownAs, William Johnson]
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A.
William Johnson
William Johnson was an early 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his strong support of federal power and independent judicial reasoning.
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B.
Sir William Johnson
Sir William Johnson was an 18th-century British colonial official and influential superintendent of Indian affairs in North America, known for his powerful role in frontier diplomacy and settlement in what is now upstate New York.
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C.
Benjamin Boone
Benjamin Boone is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his genre-blending jazz works and collaborations with poets such as U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine.
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D.
William Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
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E.
President William Johnson
President William Johnson is a fictional U.S. president who appears as a central member of the First Family in the work titled "The First Family."
- 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: William Johnson Target entity description: William Johnson is the birth name of Holly Johnson, the English artist and former lead singer of the pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
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A.
William Johnson
William Johnson was an early 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his strong support of federal power and independent judicial reasoning.
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B.
Sir William Johnson
Sir William Johnson was an 18th-century British colonial official and influential superintendent of Indian affairs in North America, known for his powerful role in frontier diplomacy and settlement in what is now upstate New York.
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C.
Benjamin Boone
Benjamin Boone is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his genre-blending jazz works and collaborations with poets such as U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine.
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D.
William Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.
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E.
President William Johnson
President William Johnson is a fictional U.S. president who appears as a central member of the First Family in the work titled "The First Family."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | present ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Holly Johnson ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Holly Johnson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-02-09 ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| genre |
new wave music
ⓘ
pop music ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasRole | lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Frankie Goes to Hollywood ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood
ⓘ
being the birth name of Holly Johnson ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | British pop music scene ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Liverpool ⓘ |
| residence | Liverpool ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stageName | Holly 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: William Johnson Description of subject: William Johnson is the birth name of Holly Johnson, the English artist and former lead singer of the pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.