Robert Wood Johnson I
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Robert Wood Johnson I was an American industrialist and co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, helping build it into a major healthcare products company.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Wood Johnson I canonical | 16 |
| Robert Wood Johnson | 2 |
| Robert Wood Johnson I – co‑founder of Johnson & Johnson | 1 |
| Robert Wood Johnson II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T275918 — 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: Robert Wood Johnson I Context triple: [Woody Johnson, notableFamilyMember, Robert Wood Johnson I]
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A.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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B.
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Josephus Daniels
Josephus Daniels was an influential American newspaper editor and publisher who later served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson.
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D.
C. Everett Koop
C. Everett Koop was a prominent American pediatric surgeon and U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health leadership, particularly in raising awareness about smoking risks and the AIDS epidemic.
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E.
William Rogers
William Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across history, including politicians, educators, and public figures.
- 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: Robert Wood Johnson I Target entity description: Robert Wood Johnson I was an American industrialist and co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, helping build it into a major healthcare products company.
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A.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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B.
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Josephus Daniels
Josephus Daniels was an influential American newspaper editor and publisher who later served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson.
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D.
C. Everett Koop
C. Everett Koop was a prominent American pediatric surgeon and U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health leadership, particularly in raising awareness about smoking risks and the AIDS epidemic.
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E.
William Rogers
William Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across history, including politicians, educators, and public figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Robert Wood Johnson I Description of subject: Robert Wood Johnson I was an American industrialist and co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, helping build it into a major healthcare products company.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert Wood Johnson II
subject surface form:
Woody Johnson
this entity surface form:
Robert Wood Johnson I – co‑founder of Johnson & Johnson