John
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John is the given name of John D. Sloat, a U.S. naval officer known for claiming California for the United States during the Mexican–American War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11805322 — 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 Context triple: [John D. Sloat, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
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John
John is the middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
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C.
John
John is the given first name of the 19th-century English theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice.
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John
John is the given name of John Eales, the renowned former Australian rugby union captain and World Cup winner.
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John
John is the common given name of American author and YouTube creator John Green, known for novels like "The Fault in Our Stars" and for co-founding the Vlogbrothers channel.
- 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 Target entity description: John is the given name of John D. Sloat, a U.S. naval officer known for claiming California for the United States during the Mexican–American War.
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John
John is the given name of John C. Frémont, a 19th-century American explorer, military officer, and politician who was the first Republican nominee for U.S. president.
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John
John is the given name of John Lloyd Stephens, the 19th-century American explorer, writer, and diplomat renowned for his pioneering documentation of Maya civilization.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John Moors Cabot, an American diplomat and member of the prominent Cabot family.
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John
John is the given name of John Frank Stevens, the American civil engineer best known for his pivotal role in the construction of the Panama Canal.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John Muir, the influential Scottish-American naturalist and conservationist known as the "Father of the National Parks."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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 Description of subject: John is the given name of John D. Sloat, a U.S. naval officer known for claiming California for the United States during the Mexican–American War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John