John
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John is the given name of Sir John Oldcastle, a notable English Lollard leader and soldier of the early 15th century.
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 T11981937 — 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: [Sir John Oldcastle, hasGivenName, 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 Sir John Oldcastle, a notable English Lollard leader and soldier of the early 15th century.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Woodville, a 15th-century English nobleman associated with the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Eliot, a prominent 17th-century English politician and leading parliamentary critic of King Charles I.
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C.
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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John
John is the given name of Saint John of Capistrano, a 15th-century Franciscan friar renowned as a preacher, theologian, and leader in the defense of Belgrade.
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John
John is the given name of John Proctor, a historical figure best known as a farmer executed during the Salem witch trials and later popularized as a central character in Arthur Miller’s play "The Crucible."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sir John Oldcastle