John Douglas
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John Douglas was a 16th-century Scottish minister and theologian who helped shape early Scottish Protestant doctrine as one of the authors of the Scots Confession.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Douglas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2301256 — 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 Douglas Context triple: [Scots Confession, coAuthor, John Douglas]
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A.
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
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B.
Robert Ford
Robert Ford was the historical outlaw best known for betraying and killing the famous American bandit Jesse James.
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C.
Joseph Anthony
Joseph Anthony was an American director, actor, and occasional screenwriter best known for his work on Broadway and in mid-20th-century film and television.
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D.
James P. Gordon
James P. Gordon was an American physicist and pioneer in quantum electronics and laser science, known for his foundational work on the maser and optical communications.
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E.
Alvin Dewey
Alvin Dewey was a real-life Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent best known for leading the investigation into the Clutter family murders, as depicted in Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
- 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 Douglas Target entity description: John Douglas was a 16th-century Scottish minister and theologian who helped shape early Scottish Protestant doctrine as one of the authors of the Scots Confession.
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A.
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford is a seasoned FBI agent and head of the Behavioral Science Unit who mentors Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels and their film adaptations.
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B.
Robert Ford
Robert Ford was the historical outlaw best known for betraying and killing the famous American bandit Jesse James.
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C.
Joseph Anthony
Joseph Anthony was an American director, actor, and occasional screenwriter best known for his work on Broadway and in mid-20th-century film and television.
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D.
James P. Gordon
James P. Gordon was an American physicist and pioneer in quantum electronics and laser science, known for his foundational work on the maser and optical communications.
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E.
Alvin Dewey
Alvin Dewey was a real-life Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent best known for leading the investigation into the Clutter family murders, as depicted in Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century person
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Scottish minister ⓘ person ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| confession | Reformed ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Scots Confession ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian theology
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Reformed theology ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| genre |
confessional document
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religious writing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the authors of the Scots Confession
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helping shape early Scottish Protestant doctrine ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Latin
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Scots ⓘ |
| movement | Scottish Reformation ⓘ |
| notableWork | Scots Confession ⓘ |
| occupation |
minister
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theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Scotland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Scottish Protestant church leader ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
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| theologicalTradition | Calvinism ⓘ |
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 Douglas Description of subject: John Douglas was a 16th-century Scottish minister and theologian who helped shape early Scottish Protestant doctrine as one of the authors of the Scots Confession.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.