John March
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John March was a colonial military officer from New England who led the unsuccessful British provincial expedition against the French stronghold of Port Royal in 1707 during Queen Anne’s War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John March canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9235535 — 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 March Context triple: [Siege of Port Royal (1707), commandedByAttacker, John March]
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A.
James Gardner March
James Gardner March was an influential American organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
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B.
John Kirkpatrick
John Kirkpatrick is an English folk musician and singer renowned for his virtuoso playing of the melodeon, button accordion, and concertina, and for his influential role in the British folk revival.
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C.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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D.
Robert Hicks
Robert Hicks is a name shared by several notable individuals, including authors, politicians, and professionals across various fields.
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E.
Edward Daniels
Edward "Teddy" Daniels is the U.S. Marshal and psychologically complex protagonist of Dennis Lehane’s novel and Martin Scorsese’s film "Shutter Island."
- 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 March Target entity description: John March was a colonial military officer from New England who led the unsuccessful British provincial expedition against the French stronghold of Port Royal in 1707 during Queen Anne’s War.
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A.
James Gardner March
James Gardner March was an influential American organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
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B.
John Kirkpatrick
John Kirkpatrick is an English folk musician and singer renowned for his virtuoso playing of the melodeon, button accordion, and concertina, and for his influential role in the British folk revival.
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C.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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D.
Robert Hicks
Robert Hicks is a name shared by several notable individuals, including authors, politicians, and professionals across various fields.
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E.
Edward Daniels
Edward "Teddy" Daniels is the U.S. Marshal and psychologically complex protagonist of Dennis Lehane’s novel and Martin Scorsese’s film "Shutter Island."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial military officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| citizenship | British America ⓘ |
| commanded | British provincial expedition against Port Royal (1707) ⓘ |
| conflict |
Queen Anne’s War
ⓘ
linked to:
Queen Anne's War
Siege of Port Royal (1707) ⓘ |
| country | New England ⓘ |
| event | unsuccessful British provincial expedition against Port Royal in 1707 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfActivity |
Acadia
ⓘ
New England ⓘ Port Royal ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
New England colonial forces
ⓘ
linked to:
New England forces
provincial militia ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonial officer ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading an unsuccessful siege of Port Royal in 1707 ⓘ |
| notableWork | expedition against Port Royal (1707) ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| opponent |
French colonial forces in Acadia
ⓘ
French garrison at Port Royal ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Queen Anne’s War
ⓘ
linked to:
Queen Anne's War
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| partOf |
British provincial forces
ⓘ
linked to:
British Army (provincial service)
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| timePeriod |
Queen Anne’s War era
ⓘ
early 18th century ⓘ |
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 March Description of subject: John March was a colonial military officer from New England who led the unsuccessful British provincial expedition against the French stronghold of Port Royal in 1707 during Queen Anne’s War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.