John D. Sloat
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John D. Sloat was a U.S. Navy officer who played a key role in the American conquest of California during the Mexican–American War, including the seizure of Monterey in 1846.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John D. Sloat canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2551378 — 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 D. Sloat Context triple: [California Campaign, commander, John D. Sloat]
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A.
William A. Petersen
William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
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B.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
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C.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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D.
Raymond Wallace Bolger
Raymond Wallace Bolger was an American actor, singer, and dancer best known for his iconic role as the Scarecrow in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
John Norville
John Norville is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
- 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 D. Sloat Target entity description: John D. Sloat was a U.S. Navy officer who played a key role in the American conquest of California during the Mexican–American War, including the seizure of Monterey in 1846.
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A.
William A. Petersen
William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
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B.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
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C.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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D.
Raymond Wallace Bolger
Raymond Wallace Bolger was an American actor, singer, and dancer best known for his iconic role as the Scarecrow in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
John Norville
John Norville is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the story for Disney's adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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 D. Sloat Description of subject: John D. Sloat was a U.S. Navy officer who played a key role in the American conquest of California during the Mexican–American War, including the seizure of Monterey in 1846.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.