John Tilley
E55825
John Tilley was an English Separatist and Mayflower passenger who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Tilley canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T88127 — 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 Tilley Context triple: [Mayflower Compact, signedBy, John Tilley]
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A.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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B.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
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D.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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E.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
- 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 Tilley Target entity description: John Tilley was an English Separatist and Mayflower passenger who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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A.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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B.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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C.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
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D.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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E.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English Separatist
ⓘ
Mayflower passenger ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWithDocument | Mayflower Compact ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Mayflower
ⓘ
surface form:
voyage of the Mayflower
|
| ethnicity | English ⓘ |
| historicalEra | early 17th century ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | participant in the founding of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a Mayflower passenger
ⓘ
signing the Mayflower Compact ⓘ |
| migration | from England to North America ⓘ |
| name | John Tilley self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| originCountry | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| partOf | group of English Separatists who settled Plymouth ⓘ |
| politicalAct | signing of a self-governing compact ⓘ |
| religion | Protestant ⓘ |
| religiousMovement | Separatism ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | early settler of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| settledIn |
Plymouth, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Plymouth, New England
|
| shipPassengerOn | Mayflower ⓘ |
| signed | Mayflower Compact ⓘ |
| signingDateOfMayflowerCompact | 1620 ⓘ |
| traveledTo | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| voyageYear | 1620 ⓘ |
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 Tilley Description of subject: John Tilley was an English Separatist and Mayflower passenger who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.