John R. Wilson
E819130
John R. Wilson was an individual notable enough to be interred at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey, though specific widely known biographical details about him are limited.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John R. Wilson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3677259 — 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 R. Wilson Context triple: [Hackensack Cemetery, containsGraveOf, John R. Wilson]
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A.
John H. Wilson
John H. Wilson was a business partner in the Wilson Brothers & Company firm, likely involved in its management and commercial operations.
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B.
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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C.
Richard J. Wilson
Richard J. Wilson is a British mathematician and author known for his work in graph theory and for co-writing influential popular and academic mathematics books.
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D.
Louis D. Wilson
Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
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E.
Richard T. Wetherald
Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
- 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 R. Wilson Target entity description: John R. Wilson was an individual notable enough to be interred at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey, though specific widely known biographical details about him are limited.
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A.
John H. Wilson
John H. Wilson was a business partner in the Wilson Brothers & Company firm, likely involved in its management and commercial operations.
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B.
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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C.
Richard J. Wilson
Richard J. Wilson is a British mathematician and author known for his work in graph theory and for co-writing influential popular and academic mathematics books.
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D.
Louis D. Wilson
Louis D. Wilson was a 19th-century North Carolina politician and military officer after whom the city of Wilson, North Carolina, is named.
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E.
Richard T. Wetherald
Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (4)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Hackensack Cemetery
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Hackensack, New Jersey ⓘ
linked to:
Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
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| countryOfBurial | United States of America ⓘ |
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 R. Wilson Description of subject: John R. Wilson was an individual notable enough to be interred at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey, though specific widely known biographical details about him are limited.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hackensack Cemetery, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States