John
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John Seigenthaler was an American journalist, editor, and civil rights advocate best known for his long tenure at The Tennessean and his work promoting First Amendment rights.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3615150 — 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.
Target entity: John Context triple: [John Seigenthaler, givenName, John]
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John
John H. Sununu is an American politician and engineer who served as Governor of New Hampshire and later as White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
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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 F. Sattler, likely referring to him in a more informal or abbreviated context.
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John
John is the given name of John L. Lewis, the influential American labor leader who headed the United Mine Workers of America and helped shape the modern labor movement.
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John
John is the given name of John Dryden Kuser, an American politician and member of a prominent New Jersey family in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Target entity description: John Seigenthaler was an American journalist, editor, and civil rights advocate best known for his long tenure at The Tennessean and his work promoting First Amendment rights.
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John
John Lewis was a prominent American civil rights leader and long-serving U.S. Congressman known for his key role in the struggle for racial equality.
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John
John is the given name of John C. Stennis, a long-serving U.S. Senator from Mississippi known for his influence on defense policy.
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John
John is the given name of John L. Lewis, the influential American labor leader who headed the United Mine Workers of America and helped shape the modern labor movement.
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John
John is the given name of John M. Harlan II, an influential 20th-century Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court known for his strong advocacy of judicial restraint and civil liberties.
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John
John is the given name of John Marshall Harlan, a prominent U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential dissents in civil rights cases.
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Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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civil rights advocate ⓘ editor ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
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surface form:
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (for lifetime achievement, journalism-related)
Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame induction ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from colon cancer ⓘ |
| child |
John Seigenthaler
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surface form:
John Michael Seigenthaler
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-07-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-07-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Peabody College
ⓘ
University of Louisville ⓘ
surface form:
University of Louisville (attended, non-graduate program)
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| employer |
The Tennessean
ⓘ
USA Today ⓘ |
| familyName |
John Seigenthaler
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surface form:
Seigenthaler
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| fullName |
John Seigenthaler
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surface form:
John Lawrence Seigenthaler
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| genre |
non-fiction
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political commentary ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for civil rights
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long tenure at The Tennessean ⓘ promotion of First Amendment rights ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent | subject of 2005 Wikipedia biography controversy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
First Amendment advocacy and public commentary
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coverage of the civil rights movement in the American South ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ newspaper editor ⓘ publisher ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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| positionHeld |
chairman of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center
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editor of The Tennessean ⓘ founding editorial director of USA Today ⓘ publisher of The Tennessean ⓘ reporter at The Tennessean ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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| spouse | Dolores Watson Seigenthaler ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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surface form:
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Description of subject: John Seigenthaler was an American journalist, editor, and civil rights advocate best known for his long tenure at The Tennessean and his work promoting First Amendment rights.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.