John Amos Shea
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John Amos Shea, better known as Jack Shea, was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Amos Shea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11156460 — 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 Amos Shea Context triple: [Jack Shea, fullName, John Amos Shea]
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A.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Oscar Broneer
Oscar Broneer was a Swedish-American archaeologist best known for his excavations in Greece, particularly at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.
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C.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
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D.
Seymour Beard
Seymour Beard was the husband of British actress Edna Best, known primarily in relation to her life and career.
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E.
Otis Harlan
Otis Harlan was an American actor and comedian best known for his early film and stage work during the silent and early sound eras.
- 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 Amos Shea Target entity description: John Amos Shea, better known as Jack Shea, was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics.
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A.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Oscar Broneer
Oscar Broneer was a Swedish-American archaeologist best known for his excavations in Greece, particularly at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.
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C.
Seymour Platt
Seymour Platt is the son of Christine Keeler, the British model and showgirl central to the 1960s Profumo affair political scandal.
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D.
Seymour Beard
Seymour Beard was the husband of British actress Edna Best, known primarily in relation to her life and career.
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E.
Otis Harlan
Otis Harlan was an American actor and comedian best known for his early film and stage work during the silent and early sound eras.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic competitor
ⓘ
human ⓘ speed skater ⓘ |
| competitionClass | long track speed skating ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-09-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-01-22 ⓘ |
| deathCause | traffic collision ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Dartmouth College ⓘ |
| familyName | Shea ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Jim Shea Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Jim Shea
Jim Shea Sr. ⓘ |
| medalistIn | 1932 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
United States national speed skating team
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. short track national team
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| middleName | Amos ⓘ |
| nickname | Jack Shea ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first American to win two gold medals in speed skating at a single Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| notableWork | winning two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| numberOfOlympicGoldMedals | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation | speed skater ⓘ |
| OlympicMedal | Olympic gold medal ⓘ |
| participantIn | 1932 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lake Placid, New York, United States
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linked to:
Lake Placid
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| placeOfDeath |
Lake Placid, New York, United States
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linked to:
Lake Placid
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| relativeRelationship | grandfather of Jim Shea Jr. ⓘ |
| residence |
Lake Placid, New York, United States
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linked to:
Lake Placid
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | speed skating ⓘ |
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 Amos Shea Description of subject: John Amos Shea, better known as Jack Shea, was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.