Sumner W. Jackson
E179585
Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sumner W. Jackson canonical | 1 |
| Sumner Welles Jackson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1574006 — 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: Sumner W. Jackson Context triple: [Groton School, hasAlumni, Sumner W. Jackson]
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A.
Willie S. Griggs
Willie S. Griggs was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Griggs v. Duke Power Co., which established the doctrine of disparate impact in employment discrimination law.
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B.
Julius Adams
Julius Adams was an American professional football defensive end best known for his long NFL career with the New England Patriots from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
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C.
Robert L. Carter
Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
Ammi B. Young
Ammi B. Young was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential federal and public building designs in the Greek Revival style.
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E.
Alonzo W. Rollins
Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
- 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: Sumner W. Jackson Target entity description: Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
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A.
Willie S. Griggs
Willie S. Griggs was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Griggs v. Duke Power Co., which established the doctrine of disparate impact in employment discrimination law.
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B.
Julius Adams
Julius Adams was an American professional football defensive end best known for his long NFL career with the New England Patriots from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
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C.
Robert L. Carter
Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
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D.
Ammi B. Young
Ammi B. Young was a 19th-century American architect known for his influential federal and public building designs in the Greek Revival style.
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E.
Alonzo W. Rollins
Alonzo W. Rollins was a Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist whose substantial donations and support for education led to a liberal arts college in Florida being named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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World War II resistance member ⓘ person ⓘ physician ⓘ resistance member ⓘ |
| alignedWith |
Allies of World War II
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French Resistance ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in a Nazi concentration camp ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Jackson ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Sumner ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| ideology | anti-Nazism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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French ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | death in Nazi custody ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name |
Sumner W. Jackson
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sumner Welles Jackson
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| notableFor |
aiding the French Resistance in Paris during World War II
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treating and sheltering Allied servicemen in occupied Paris ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
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surgeon ⓘ |
| opponent | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| participantIn | French Resistance ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nazi concentration camp ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| role |
U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II
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doctor aiding resistance fighters ⓘ |
| victimOf | Nazi persecution ⓘ |
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: Sumner W. Jackson Description of subject: Sumner W. Jackson was an American physician and U.S. Army officer in Paris during World War II who became known for aiding the French Resistance and was ultimately killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sumner Welles Jackson