John
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John is the given name of John André, the British Army officer and spymaster during the American Revolutionary War who was executed for his role in Benedict Arnold’s treason.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11926308 — 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 André, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
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John
John is the given name of John W. Mauchly, the American physicist and co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
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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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D.
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.
- 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 André, the British Army officer and spymaster during the American Revolutionary War who was executed for his role in Benedict Arnold’s treason.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Byron, an English nobleman and Royalist commander during the English Civil War.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Eager Howard, an American Revolutionary War officer and early political leader from Maryland.
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C.
John
John is the given name of Sir John Moore, the renowned British Army general noted for his leadership during the Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
John
John is the given name of John Henry Kagi, an American abolitionist who served as a key lieutenant to John Brown during the raid on Harpers Ferry.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John F. Reynolds, a Union Army general who served during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.