John Bradford
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John Bradford was the son of William Bradford, the longtime governor of Plymouth Colony and a key leader among the Pilgrims in early colonial New England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Bradford canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T423037 — 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 Bradford Context triple: [William Bradford, child, John Bradford]
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A.
John Owen
John Owen was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan theologian and pastor known for his influential writings on Reformed doctrine and Christian spirituality.
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B.
William Perkins
William Perkins was a leading late-16th-century English theologian and preacher whose influential writings helped shape the development and spread of Puritan thought.
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C.
John Knox
John Knox was a 16th-century Scottish Reformer and fiery preacher who led the establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland and became one of the most influential figures of the Protestant Reformation.
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D.
William Ames
William Ames was an influential early 17th-century English Puritan theologian and moral philosopher whose writings helped shape Reformed and Puritan thought in England and New England.
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E.
William Farel
William Farel was a French Protestant reformer and fiery preacher who played a key role in establishing the Reformation in French-speaking Switzerland and in persuading John Calvin to remain in Geneva.
- 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 Bradford Target entity description: John Bradford was the son of William Bradford, the longtime governor of Plymouth Colony and a key leader among the Pilgrims in early colonial New England.
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A.
John Owen
John Owen was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan theologian and pastor known for his influential writings on Reformed doctrine and Christian spirituality.
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B.
William Perkins
William Perkins was a leading late-16th-century English theologian and preacher whose influential writings helped shape the development and spread of Puritan thought.
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C.
John Knox
John Knox was a 16th-century Scottish Reformer and fiery preacher who led the establishment of Presbyterianism in Scotland and became one of the most influential figures of the Protestant Reformation.
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D.
William Ames
William Ames was an influential early 17th-century English Puritan theologian and moral philosopher whose writings helped shape Reformed and Puritan thought in England and New England.
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E.
William Farel
William Farel was a French Protestant reformer and fiery preacher who played a key role in establishing the Reformation in French-speaking Switzerland and in persuading John Calvin to remain in Geneva.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| child | John Bradford self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Plymouth Colony
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Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
English people
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English people ⓘ |
| familyName | Bradford ⓘ |
| father | William Bradford ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Bradford family ⓘ |
| notableWork | Of Plymouth Plantation ⓘ |
| participantIn | Plymouth Colony founding ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| religiousMovement | Pilgrims ⓘ |
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 Bradford Description of subject: John Bradford was the son of William Bradford, the longtime governor of Plymouth Colony and a key leader among the Pilgrims in early colonial New England.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Bradford