John Snow
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John Snow was a 19th-century English physician and pioneer of modern epidemiology, best known for tracing a cholera outbreak in London to a contaminated water pump.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Snow canonical | 6 |
| John Snow (physician) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2765939 — 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 Snow Context triple: [John Snow College, namedAfter, John Snow]
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A.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
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B.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
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C.
Hugh Beringar
Hugh Beringar is a shrewd, loyal deputy sheriff and close ally of Brother Cadfael in Ellis Peters’ medieval mystery series "The Cadfael Chronicles."
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D.
John Hudson
John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
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E.
John Hudson
John Hudson is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by honors such as the William Smith Medal.
- 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 Snow Target entity description: John Snow was a 19th-century English physician and pioneer of modern epidemiology, best known for tracing a cholera outbreak in London to a contaminated water pump.
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A.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
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B.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
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C.
Hugh Beringar
Hugh Beringar is a shrewd, loyal deputy sheriff and close ally of Brother Cadfael in Ellis Peters’ medieval mystery series "The Cadfael Chronicles."
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D.
John Hudson
John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
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E.
John Hudson
John Hudson is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by honors such as the William Smith Medal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epidemiologist
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human ⓘ physician ⓘ public health pioneer ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Brompton Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1813-03-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1858-06-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hunterian School of Medicine
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University of London ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Snow ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anesthesia
ⓘ
epidemiology ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| fullName | John Snow self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasHonor | considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
development of modern epidemiology
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public health practices in water and sanitation ⓘ |
| hasMonument |
John Snow public house in Soho, London
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replica Broad Street pump in Soho, London ⓘ |
| knownFor |
foundational work in modern epidemiology
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investigation of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak ⓘ linking cholera transmission to contaminated water ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | On the Mode of Communication of Cholera ⓘ |
| occupation |
anesthetist
ⓘ
epidemiologist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
York ⓘ Yorkshire ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| positionHeld |
fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
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member of the Westminster Medical Society ⓘ |
| religion | secularism ⓘ |
| residence |
Soho
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surface form:
Soho, London
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | removal of the Broad Street pump handle during the 1854 cholera outbreak ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
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 Snow Description of subject: John Snow was a 19th-century English physician and pioneer of modern epidemiology, best known for tracing a cholera outbreak in London to a contaminated water pump.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Snow (physician)