realPerson John Anglin
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John Anglin was a real-life American bank robber best known as one of the three inmates who famously escaped from Alcatraz prison in 1962 and disappeared without a trace.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| realPerson John Anglin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3826627 — 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: realPerson John Anglin Context triple: [Fred Ward as John Anglin, basedOn, realPerson John Anglin]
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A.
Michael Jones
Michael Jones was a 17th-century English Parliamentarian general noted for his role in the Irish Confederate Wars, including leading forces at the Battle of Dungan's Hill.
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B.
John Shinn
John Shinn was the founder of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, one of the oldest natural history institutions in the United States.
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C.
Matthew Johns
Matthew Johns is a former Australian rugby league footballer and media personality best known for his successful playing career with the Newcastle Knights and his later work as a television commentator and host.
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D.
John Anthony
John Anthony is a character known for his significant role in the narrative of the work titled "Strife."
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E.
Jonathan Roberts
Jonathan Roberts is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Disney’s animated classic "The Lion King."
- 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: realPerson John Anglin Target entity description: John Anglin was a real-life American bank robber best known as one of the three inmates who famously escaped from Alcatraz prison in 1962 and disappeared without a trace.
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A.
Michael Jones
Michael Jones was a 17th-century English Parliamentarian general noted for his role in the Irish Confederate Wars, including leading forces at the Battle of Dungan's Hill.
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B.
John Shinn
John Shinn was the founder of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, one of the oldest natural history institutions in the United States.
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C.
Matthew Johns
Matthew Johns is a former Australian rugby league footballer and media personality best known for his successful playing career with the Newcastle Knights and his later work as a television commentator and host.
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D.
John Anthony
John Anthony is a character known for his significant role in the narrative of the work titled "Strife."
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E.
Jonathan Roberts
Jonathan Roberts is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Disney’s animated classic "The Lion King."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alcatraz escapee
ⓘ
bank robber ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfNotoriety | unsolved prison escape case ⓘ |
| coEscapee |
Clarence Anglin
ⓘ
Frank Morris ⓘ |
| convictedOf | bank robbery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| disappearanceStatus | missing person ⓘ |
| disappeared | 1962 ⓘ |
| escapeLocation |
Alcatraz Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay
|
| escapeMethod | raft constructed from raincoats ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Anglin family ⓘ |
| inferredDateOfBirth | 1930s (approximate) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | escaped prisoner ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
escape from Alcatraz prison
ⓘ
incarceration at Alcatraz ⓘ |
| notableFor | escape from Alcatraz in June 1962 ⓘ |
| occupation | bank robber ⓘ |
| participantIn | 1962 Alcatraz escape ⓘ |
| partOf |
1962 Alcatraz escape
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglin–Morris escape group
|
| placeOfDetention |
Alcatraz Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
|
| portrayedBy | Fred Ward ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | film "Escape from Alcatraz" ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Clarence Anglin ⓘ |
| subjectOf | FBI investigation into Alcatraz escapees ⓘ |
| wantedBy | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
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: realPerson John Anglin Description of subject: John Anglin was a real-life American bank robber best known as one of the three inmates who famously escaped from Alcatraz prison in 1962 and disappeared without a trace.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.