John
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John Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901.
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 T5465357 — 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: [John Riley Tanner, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John Adams, the prominent American minimalist and post-minimalist composer known for works like "Nixon in China" and "Short Ride in a Fast Machine."
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Boyd-Carpenter, a prominent British Conservative politician who served in several senior government positions in the mid-20th century.
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C.
John
John is the first name of John Dashwood, a character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility."
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John
John is the given first name of American character actor and comedian Rags Ragland.
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John
John is the given name of actor John Cho, a Korean American performer known for roles in the "Harold & Kumar" films and the "Star Trek" reboot series.
- 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 Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901.
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John
John is the given name of John Peter Altgeld, a prominent 19th-century American politician and reformist governor of Illinois.
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John
John is the given name of John Gill Shorter, who served as the 17th Governor of Alabama during the American Civil War.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States who served from 1841 to 1845.
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John
John is the given name of John Y. Brown Jr., an American businessman and politician who served as governor of Kentucky.
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John
John is the first name of Pete Ricketts, an American businessman and politician who has served as governor of Nebraska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Governor of Illinois
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | user-provided description: "John Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901." NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Tanner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| name | John Riley Tanner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as the 21st governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1901 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1897 ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 21st Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| politicalOfficeJurisdiction | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| residenceWhileInOffice | Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfPoliticalActivity | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
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 Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.