John W. Reid
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John W. Reid was a pro-slavery Missouri militia leader who led the attacking forces against John Brown’s free-state defenders at the 1856 Battle of Osawatomie during the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
All labels observed (1)
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| John W. Reid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16142958 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John W. Reid Context triple: [Battle of Osawatomie, commander, John W. Reid]
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A.
Duncan Sullivan
Duncan Sullivan is a minor character on the television show "Friends," known as Phoebe Buffay’s gay Canadian ice dancer husband whom she married to help him get a green card.
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B.
Russell O. Gillard
Russell O. Gillard was the husband of silent film actress Lottie Pickford, sister of movie star Mary Pickford.
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C.
James W. Reid
James W. Reid was a Canadian-American architect best known for co-designing the iconic Victorian seaside resort Hotel del Coronado in California.
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D.
Michael J. McCulley
Michael J. McCulley is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy submariner who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.
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E.
James J. Lindsay
James J. Lindsay is a retired U.S. Army general best known for leading elite airborne and special operations forces and helping shape modern American special operations doctrine.
- 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 W. Reid Target entity description: John W. Reid was a pro-slavery Missouri militia leader who led the attacking forces against John Brown’s free-state defenders at the 1856 Battle of Osawatomie during the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
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A.
Duncan Sullivan
Duncan Sullivan is a minor character on the television show "Friends," known as Phoebe Buffay’s gay Canadian ice dancer husband whom she married to help him get a green card.
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B.
Russell O. Gillard
Russell O. Gillard was the husband of silent film actress Lottie Pickford, sister of movie star Mary Pickford.
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C.
James W. Reid
James W. Reid was a Canadian-American architect best known for co-designing the iconic Victorian seaside resort Hotel del Coronado in California.
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D.
Michael J. McCulley
Michael J. McCulley is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy submariner who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.
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E.
James J. Lindsay
James J. Lindsay is a retired U.S. Army general best known for leading elite airborne and special operations forces and helping shape modern American special operations doctrine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.