John
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John is the given name of the 17th-century English poet and intellectual John Milton, renowned for his epic poem "Paradise Lost."
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 T1056489 — 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 Context triple: [John Milton, 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 is the formal first name of Johnny Most, the famed American sports broadcaster known for his passionate radio commentary of Boston Celtics basketball games.
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John
John is the given name of the prominent American architect John Russell Pope, known for designing monumental buildings in Washington, D.C.
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John
John is the first name of Jeremy Thorpe, a prominent British Liberal Party politician and former party leader.
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John
John is the given name of the British physicist J. J. Thomson, who is best known for discovering the electron and proposing the plum pudding model of the atom.
- 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 Target entity description: John is the given name of the 17th-century English poet and intellectual John Milton, renowned for his epic poem "Paradise Lost."
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John
John is the given name of the influential English philosopher John Locke, a key figure in empiricism and liberal political theory.
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John
John is the given name of John Proctor, a historical figure best known as a farmer executed during the Salem witch trials and later popularized as a central character in Arthur Miller’s play "The Crucible."
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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 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 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
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
human ⓘ intellectual ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1608-12-09 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney failure (probable) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1674-11-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Christ's College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
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St Paul's School, London ⓘ |
| employer |
English Commonwealth
ⓘ
surface form:
Commonwealth of England
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| familyName | Milton ⓘ |
| genre |
epic poetry
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political prose ⓘ religious poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | John self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasPart | twelve books of Paradise Lost ⓘ |
| influenced |
English literature
ⓘ
John Keats ⓘ Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ Romantic poets ⓘ William Blake ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Classical literature
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Reformation theology ⓘ Bible ⓘ
surface form:
The Bible
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Early modern English literature ⓘ |
| movement | Puritanism ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Areopagitica
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Paradise Lost ⓘ Paradise Regained ⓘ Samson Agonistes ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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pamphleteer ⓘ poet ⓘ polemicist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| placeOfDeath |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| positionHeld | Secretary for Foreign Tongues ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
Puritan ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Minshull
ⓘ
Katherine Woodcock ⓘ Mary Powell ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Milton scholarship ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| writingStyle | blank verse ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: John Description of subject: John is the given name of the 17th-century English poet and intellectual John Milton, renowned for his epic poem "Paradise Lost."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.