John
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John is the birth name of Jack Pickford, a Canadian-born American actor and film director of the silent era and younger brother of Mary Pickford.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2649552 — 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 Context triple: [Jack Pickford, givenName, John]
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John
John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
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John
John is the given name of John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation known for his advocacy of digital rights.
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John
John is the given name of the renowned British mathematician John H. Conway, known for his work in group theory, number theory, and the invention of the Game of Life.
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John
John is the given name of John Nance Garner, who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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John
John is the given name of John F. Sattler, likely referring to him in a more informal or abbreviated context.
- 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 Target entity description: John is the birth name of Jack Pickford, a Canadian-born American actor and film director of the silent era and younger brother of Mary Pickford.
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John
John is the birth name of American actor Jack Lemmon, a celebrated star of classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
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John is the birth name of American actor, singer, and dancer Jack Haley, best known for playing the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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John is the given name of John Attenborough, a British executive and the younger brother of naturalist David Attenborough and filmmaker Richard Attenborough.
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John is the given name of John D. Rockefeller Jr., the American philanthropist and heir to the Rockefeller family fortune.
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John
John is the given name of John D. Rockefeller, the American industrialist and philanthropist who founded Standard Oil and became one of the wealthiest individuals in history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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 Description of subject: John is the birth name of Jack Pickford, a Canadian-born American actor and film director of the silent era and younger brother of Mary Pickford.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.