Henry Johnson
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Henry Johnson was a highly decorated African American World War I soldier renowned for his extraordinary bravery in combat as a member of the Harlem Hellfighters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Johnson canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10679181 — 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: Henry Johnson Context triple: [Harlem Hellfighters, notableMember, Henry Johnson]
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A.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was the early settler and railroad station agent whose land and efforts led to the founding of the community that became Johnson City, Tennessee.
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B.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was a British Army officer who commanded forces during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Stony Point.
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C.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson is a screenwriter known for his work on the film "Hot Pepper."
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Henry Horne
Henry Horne was a British Army general of the First World War who commanded First Army on the Western Front and was noted for his role in major offensives such as the Battle of Arras.
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E.
Eugene Williams
Eugene Williams was a Black teenager whose death after being attacked for drifting into a whites-only area of Lake Michigan helped ignite the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
- 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: Henry Johnson Target entity description: Henry Johnson was a highly decorated African American World War I soldier renowned for his extraordinary bravery in combat as a member of the Harlem Hellfighters.
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A.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was the early settler and railroad station agent whose land and efforts led to the founding of the community that became Johnson City, Tennessee.
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B.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was a British Army officer who commanded forces during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Stony Point.
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C.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson is a screenwriter known for his work on the film "Hot Pepper."
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D.
Henry Horne
Henry Horne was a British Army general of the First World War who commanded First Army on the Western Front and was noted for his role in major offensives such as the Battle of Arras.
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E.
Eugene Williams
Eugene Williams was a Black teenager whose death after being attacked for drifting into a whites-only area of Lake Michigan helped ignite the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Medal of Honor recipient
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World War I veteran ⓘ human ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Croix de Guerre
ⓘ
Croix de Guerre with Palm ⓘ
linked to:
Croix de Guerre
Distinguished Service Cross ⓘ Medal of Honor ⓘ Purple Heart ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | myocarditis ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| date | 1918-05-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1897-07-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1929-07-01 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
Henry Johnson statue in Albany, New York
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Henry Johnson street and public school dedications ⓘ |
| hasPart | hand-to-hand combat with German soldiers ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | symbol of African American military valor in World War I ⓘ |
| honoredBy |
President Barack Obama
ⓘ
linked to:
Barack Obama
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| location | Argonne Forest, France ⓘ |
| memberOf |
369th Infantry Regiment
ⓘ
Harlem Hellfighters ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Private ⓘ |
| notableEvent | single-handedly fought off a German raiding party in 1918 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extraordinary bravery in combat
ⓘ
service with the Harlem Hellfighters ⓘ |
| notableWork | heroic actions in the Argonne Forest ⓘ |
| numberOfWounds | 21 ⓘ |
| occupation | railroad porter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| posthumousAward | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| posthumousAwardDate | 2015-06-02 ⓘ |
| protected | fellow soldier Needham Roberts ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
French Army
ⓘ
United States government ⓘ |
| residence |
Albany, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Albany
|
| serviceNumber | unknown ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedWeapon |
bolo knife
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grenades ⓘ rifle ⓘ |
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: Henry Johnson Description of subject: Henry Johnson was a highly decorated African American World War I soldier renowned for his extraordinary bravery in combat as a member of the Harlem Hellfighters.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.