John
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John is the given name of John Muir, the influential Scottish-American naturalist and conservationist known as the "Father of the National Parks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T770104 — 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.
Target entity: John Context triple: [John Muir, givenName, John]
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John
John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
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John
John is the given name of John Hancock, a prominent American statesman and patriot best known for his large signature on the United States Declaration of Independence.
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John
John is the given first name of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving and influential first director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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John
John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
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John
John is the given first name of the legendary American professional golfer Byron Nelson, one of the sport’s early great champions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Target entity description: John is the given name of John Muir, the influential Scottish-American naturalist and conservationist known as the "Father of the National Parks."
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John
John is the given name of John Hancock, a prominent American statesman and patriot best known for his large signature on the United States Declaration of Independence.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
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John
John is the given name of the renowned British mathematician John H. Conway, known for his work in group theory, number theory, and the invention of the Game of Life.
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John
John is the given first name of the legendary American professional golfer Byron Nelson, one of the sport’s early great champions.
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John
John is the given name of the 19th-century British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, a key figure in liberal thought and utilitarianism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conservation pioneer
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environmental activist ⓘ human ⓘ nature writer ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
Sierra Nevada
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surface form:
Sierra Nevada (United States)
Yosemite Valley ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1838-04-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1914-12-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Muir ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
environmentalism
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natural history ⓘ nature conservation ⓘ |
| founded | Sierra Club ⓘ |
| givenName | John self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
John Muir National Historic Site named after him
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John Muir Trail named after him ⓘ Mount Muir named after him ⓘ Muir Woods National Monument named after him ⓘ |
| influenced |
American conservation policy
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Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| movement |
conservation movement
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environmental movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for preservation of wilderness in the United States
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influencing creation of the U.S. National Park system ⓘ |
| notableNickname | Father of the National Parks ⓘ |
| notableWork |
My First Summer in the Sierra
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Our National Parks ⓘ The Mountains of California ⓘ |
| occupation |
conservationist
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environmentalist ⓘ naturalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland
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surface form:
Dunbar, Scotland
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| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California, United States of America
Wisconsin ⓘ
surface form:
Wisconsin, United States of America
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Description of subject: John is the given name of John Muir, the influential Scottish-American naturalist and conservationist known as the "Father of the National Parks."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.