John
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John Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and long-serving U.S. Congressman known for his key role in the struggle for racial equality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T855044 — 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 Lewis, givenName, John]
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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 H. Sununu is an American politician and engineer who served as Governor of New Hampshire and later as White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
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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 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.
- 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 Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and long-serving U.S. Congressman known for his key role in the struggle for racial equality.
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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 John Nance Garner, who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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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.
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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).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
human ⓘ member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
nonviolent protest
ⓘ
racial equality ⓘ voting rights ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award
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Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ Spingarn Medal ⓘ |
| burialPlace | South-View Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pancreatic cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-02-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-07-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
American Baptist Theological Seminary
ⓘ
Fisk University ⓘ |
| endTime |
1966
ⓘ
2020-07-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Lewis ⓘ |
| genre | autobiography ⓘ |
| givenName | John self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | The Honorable ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership in the civil rights movement
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long service in the U.S. Congress ⓘ nonviolent activism ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableWork |
March: Book One
ⓘ
surface form:
March (graphic novel trilogy)
autobiography "Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement" ⓘ
surface form:
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
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| occupation |
author
ⓘ
civil rights leader ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participantIn |
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
ⓘ
surface form:
1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965) ⓘ
surface form:
Bloody Sunday (1965)
Freedom Rides ⓘ Selma to Montgomery marches ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Troy, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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| positionHeld |
Chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 5th congressional district ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta
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surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime |
1963
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1987-01-03 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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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 Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and long-serving U.S. Congressman known for his key role in the struggle for racial equality.
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