New Johnston
E283360
New Johnston is a modernized sans-serif typeface developed as an updated version of the original Johnston design used for London’s public transport system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Johnston canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2634506 — 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: New Johnston Context triple: [Johnston typeface, hasVariant, New Johnston]
-
A.
Johnston
Johnston is a surname and given name of Scottish and Irish origin, commonly used as a variant of Johnson.
-
B.
Johnston
Johnston is a suburban town in Providence County, Rhode Island, known for hosting several state government facilities and a mix of residential and commercial areas.
-
C.
New Johnstown
New Johnstown was the original name of what is now the city of Cornwall in eastern Ontario, Canada.
-
D.
Jackston
Jackston is an alternative spelling or variant form of the given name or surname Jackson.
-
E.
Camperdown
Camperdown is an inner-western suburb of Sydney, Australia, known for housing the main campus of the University of Sydney and major medical and research facilities.
- 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: New Johnston Target entity description: New Johnston is a modernized sans-serif typeface developed as an updated version of the original Johnston design used for London’s public transport system.
-
A.
Johnston
Johnston is a surname and given name of Scottish and Irish origin, commonly used as a variant of Johnson.
-
B.
Johnston
Johnston is a suburban town in Providence County, Rhode Island, known for hosting several state government facilities and a mix of residential and commercial areas.
-
C.
New Johnstown
New Johnstown was the original name of what is now the city of Cornwall in eastern Ontario, Canada.
-
D.
Jackston
Jackston is an alternative spelling or variant form of the given name or surname Jackson.
-
E.
Camperdown
Camperdown is an inner-western suburb of Sydney, Australia, known for housing the main campus of the University of Sydney and major medical and research facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sans-serif typeface
ⓘ
typeface ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| basedOn | Johnston typeface ⓘ |
| designClassification | humanist sans-serif ⓘ |
| designedFor |
brand consistency
ⓘ
legibility in signage ⓘ |
| designerOfOriginalWas | Edward Johnston ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
geometric influences
ⓘ
high legibility at distance ⓘ open letterforms ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
branding
ⓘ
public transport signage ⓘ wayfinding ⓘ |
| purpose | modernization of Johnston typeface ⓘ |
| region | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| script | Latin ⓘ |
| style |
bold
ⓘ
italic ⓘ roman ⓘ |
| supports |
lowercase letters
ⓘ
numerals ⓘ punctuation ⓘ uppercase letters ⓘ |
| usedBy |
London Underground
ⓘ
Transport for London ⓘ |
| usedOn |
London Underground station name signs
ⓘ
London Underground wayfinding signs ⓘ London transport maps ⓘ London transport publicity materials ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: New Johnston Description of subject: New Johnston is a modernized sans-serif typeface developed as an updated version of the original Johnston design used for London’s public transport system.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.