John Boies Tileston
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John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Boies Tileston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T385279 — 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 Boies Tileston Context triple: [Mount Lyell, firstAscentBy, John Boies Tileston]
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A.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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B.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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C.
Matthias N. Forney
Matthias N. Forney was a 19th-century American mechanical engineer and locomotive designer who played a key role in the early professionalization of mechanical engineering in the United States.
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D.
John D. Nichols
John D. Nichols is a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to the arts and culture sector led to major landmarks being named in his honor.
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E.
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick was an American composer and musicologist known for his work in Native American music and contributions to ethnomusicology.
- 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 Boies Tileston Target entity description: John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
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A.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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B.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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C.
Matthias N. Forney
Matthias N. Forney was a 19th-century American mechanical engineer and locomotive designer who played a key role in the early professionalization of mechanical engineering in the United States.
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D.
John D. Nichols
John D. Nichols is a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to the arts and culture sector led to major landmarks being named in his honor.
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E.
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick was an American composer and musicologist known for his work in Native American music and contributions to ethnomusicology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mountain ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ |
| activity | mountaineering ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| highestPointOf | Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| knownFor | first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first recorded ascent of the highest peak in Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| notableAscent | Mount Lyell ⓘ |
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 Boies Tileston Description of subject: John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.