John
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John II, Duke of Brittany, was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of medieval France.
All labels observed (1)
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11813785 — 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 II, Duke of Brittany, 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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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 II, Duke of Brittany, was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of medieval France.
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John
John I, Duke of Brittany, was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled Brittany and was involved in the complex feudal politics between France and England.
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John
John II of France was a 14th-century King of France, known as "John the Good," whose reign was marked by the Hundred Years' War and his capture at the Battle of Poitiers.
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John
John of Montfort was a 14th-century nobleman involved in the Breton succession disputes during the Hundred Years’ War.
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John
John the Fearless was a powerful early 15th-century Duke of Burgundy known for his aggressive political maneuvers and pivotal role in the French civil conflicts of the Hundred Years’ War.
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John II of Aragon was a 15th-century King of Aragon and Navarre whose reign was marked by dynastic conflicts and the consolidation of Spanish territories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 II, Duke of Brittany, was a 13th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of medieval France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.