John Smith
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John Smith was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in the early 1990s until his sudden death in 1994.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10135880 — 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.
Target entity: John Smith Context triple: [Leader of the Labour Party (UK), notableOfficeHolder, John Smith]
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John
John is the husband of Martha Rainsborough.
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John
John was a historical Prince of Asturias, the traditional title for the heir apparent to the Spanish throne.
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John
John is the given name of John Finnis, a prominent legal philosopher known for his work on natural law theory.
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John
John is the given name of John Stewart, Earl of Mar, a Scottish nobleman and political figure.
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John
John is the given name of Lord Eldon, a prominent British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Smith Target entity description: John Smith was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in the early 1990s until his sudden death in 1994.
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John Smith
John Smith was a delegate from South Carolina who served in the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary era.
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John Smith
John Smith is an individual known primarily as the husband of Jane Smith.
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John Smith
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
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D.
John Smith
John Smith is a person whose formal given name is John but who is also known by the nickname Johnny Smith.
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John Smith
John Smith was a 19th-century British officer credited with bringing the Ajanta Caves to modern attention after rediscovering them in 1819.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
heart attack
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myocardial infarction ⓘ |
| constituencyRepresented |
Monklands West
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Lanarkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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| dateOfBirth | 1938-09-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-05-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Glasgow University Union (student debating society)
NERFINISHED
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University of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix |
MP
ⓘ
PC ⓘ QC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Privy Council
ⓘ
surface form:
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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| memberOfPoliticalParty | Labour Party (UK) ⓘ |
| name | John Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | modernisation of the Labour Party in the early 1990s ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
barrister
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politician ⓘ |
| parliamentaryGroup | Labour Party (UK) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Argyll and Bute
NERFINISHED
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Dalmally NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Leader of the Labour Party (UK)
NERFINISHED
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Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ Minister of State for Energy (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ Minister of State for the Privy Council Office (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ Secretary of State for Trade (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Secretary of State for Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Secretary of State for Trade ⓘ Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Neil Kinnock as Leader of the Labour Party
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Neil Kinnock as Leader of the Opposition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Church of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Tony Blair as Leader of the Labour Party
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Tony Blair as Leader of the Opposition ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Smith Description of subject: John Smith was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in the early 1990s until his sudden death in 1994.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.