John Glover
E158817
American military officer
Continental Army officer
mariner
patriot in the American Revolution
person
John Glover was an American Revolutionary War officer and mariner best known for leading the Marblehead Regiment and helping George Washington cross the Delaware River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Glover canonical | 2 |
| John Glover (general) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1378147 — 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 Glover Context triple: [Commonwealth Avenue Mall, hasStatueOf, John Glover]
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A.
William Coddington
William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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B.
George Washington Glover
George Washington Glover was the first husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and a mason and builder who died shortly after their marriage.
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C.
Thomas Preston
Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
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D.
Esek Hopkins
Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
- 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 Glover Target entity description: John Glover was an American Revolutionary War officer and mariner best known for leading the Marblehead Regiment and helping George Washington cross the Delaware River.
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A.
William Coddington
William Coddington was a 17th-century English colonial leader and magistrate best known as a founding figure and early governor in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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B.
George Washington Glover
George Washington Glover was the first husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and a mason and builder who died shortly after their marriage.
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C.
Thomas Preston
Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
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D.
Esek Hopkins
Esek Hopkins was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Marinus Willett
Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
ⓘ
Continental Army officer ⓘ mariner ⓘ patriot in the American Revolution ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Army
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| birthDate | 1732-11-05 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Salem, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay
|
| category |
American Revolutionary War officers
ⓘ
Continental Army generals ⓘ People of Massachusetts in the American Revolution ⓘ |
| commanded |
14th Continental Regiment
ⓘ
Marblehead Regiment ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1797-01-30 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Marblehead, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
Glover’s Rock in Pelham, New York
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statue of John Glover in Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| helped |
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on December 25–26, 1776
ⓘ
surface form:
George Washington cross the Delaware River
evacuate the Continental Army from Long Island ⓘ |
| knownFor |
assisting George Washington in crossing the Delaware River
ⓘ
commanding the Marblehead Regiment ⓘ evacuating Continental Army troops from Long Island ⓘ organizing and leading the Marblehead mariners ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | brigadier general ⓘ |
| militaryServiceEnd | 1782 ⓘ |
| militaryServiceStart | 1775 ⓘ |
| name | John Glover ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
fisherman
ⓘ
merchant ⓘ ship owner ⓘ |
| organized | a regiment of mariners from Marblehead ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
Battle of Long Island ⓘ Saratoga campaign ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Trenton ⓘ New York and New Jersey campaign ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalist ⓘ |
| residence | Marblehead, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| servedUnder | George Washington ⓘ |
| spouse |
Frances (Hitchborn) Glover
ⓘ
Hannah Gale ⓘ |
| supportedCause | American independence ⓘ |
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 Glover Description of subject: John Glover was an American Revolutionary War officer and mariner best known for leading the Marblehead Regiment and helping George Washington cross the Delaware River.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Glover (general)