John McLean
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John McLean was a prominent early 19th-century Boston merchant and philanthropist whose bequest helped establish the psychiatric institution later named McLean Hospital in his honor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John McLean canonical | 3 |
| John McLean of Boston | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1024808 — 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 McLean Context triple: [McLean Hospital, namedAfter, John McLean]
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A.
John Merrill
John Merrill was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential international architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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B.
Wayne Campbell
Wayne Campbell is a fictional, rock-loving slacker and cable-access TV host best known from the "Wayne's World" sketches and films.
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C.
Alan Heim
Alan Heim is an American film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on "All That Jazz" and his extensive collaborations with director Bob Fosse.
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D.
Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and statesman who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
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E.
James Guthrie
James Guthrie was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and Covenanter leader who was executed for his staunch opposition to royal interference in church affairs.
- 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 McLean Target entity description: John McLean was a prominent early 19th-century Boston merchant and philanthropist whose bequest helped establish the psychiatric institution later named McLean Hospital in his honor.
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A.
Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood musicals, including writing enduring standards for films like "Meet Me in St. Louis."
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B.
John Merrill
John Merrill was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential international architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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C.
Wayne Campbell
Wayne Campbell is a fictional, rock-loving slacker and cable-access TV host best known from the "Wayne's World" sketches and films.
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D.
Alan Heim
Alan Heim is an American film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on "All That Jazz" and his extensive collaborations with director Bob Fosse.
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E.
Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and statesman who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
merchant
ⓘ
person ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Massachusetts General Hospital
ⓘ
McLean Hospital ⓘ |
| bequestUsedFor | establishment of a psychiatric institution ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | McLean ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| knownAs |
John McLean
ⓘ
surface form:
John McLean of Boston
|
| legacy |
major benefactor of psychiatric care in Massachusetts
ⓘ
namesake of a leading psychiatric hospital in the United States ⓘ |
| madeBequestTo |
Massachusetts General Hospital
ⓘ
McLean Hospital ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | McLean Hospital ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early 19th-century Boston mercantile activities
ⓘ
philanthropic bequest that helped establish McLean Hospital ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
healthcare
ⓘ
mental health care ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| regionOfActivity | New England ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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.
Input
Subject: John McLean Description of subject: John McLean was a prominent early 19th-century Boston merchant and philanthropist whose bequest helped establish the psychiatric institution later named McLean Hospital in his honor.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lebanon, Ohio
this entity surface form:
John McLean of Boston