John Row
E253894
John Row was a 16th-century Scottish minister and reformer who helped shape early Presbyterian doctrine as one of the authors of the Scots Confession.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Row canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2301257 — 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 Row Context triple: [Scots Confession, coAuthor, John Row]
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A.
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
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B.
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith was a London-based bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
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C.
Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and statesman who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
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D.
John Ferrers
John Ferrers was an early American financier known for being among the original group of New York brokers who helped establish what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
James Guthrie
James Guthrie was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and Covenanter leader who was executed for his staunch opposition to royal interference in church affairs.
- 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 Row Target entity description: John Row was a 16th-century Scottish minister and reformer who helped shape early Presbyterian doctrine as one of the authors of the Scots Confession.
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A.
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
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B.
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith was a London-based bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
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C.
Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and statesman who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
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D.
John Ferrers
John Ferrers was an early American financier known for being among the original group of New York brokers who helped establish what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
James Guthrie
James Guthrie was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and Covenanter leader who was executed for his staunch opposition to royal interference in church affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Presbyterian theologian
ⓘ
Protestant reformer ⓘ Scottish minister ⓘ person ⓘ |
| affiliation | Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| authorOf | Scots Confession ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| confessionInvolved | Scots Confession ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Scots Confession ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| era | Reformation era ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the authors of the Scots Confession
ⓘ
helping shape early Presbyterian doctrine ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Latin
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Scots ⓘ |
| movement | Scottish Reformation ⓘ |
| notableWork | Scots Confession ⓘ |
| occupation |
minister
ⓘ
reformer ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Scotland ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| roleIn | early development of Presbyterian doctrine ⓘ |
| theologicalTradition | Reformed theology ⓘ |
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 Row Description of subject: John Row was a 16th-century Scottish minister and reformer who helped shape early Presbyterian 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.