John W. Geary
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John W. Geary was a 19th-century American politician and military officer who served as the first mayor of San Francisco, governor of the Kansas Territory, and governor of Pennsylvania.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John W. Geary canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6623355 — 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 W. Geary Context triple: [Geary Street, namedAfter, John W. Geary]
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A.
Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman is an American science fiction author best known for his award-winning novel "The Forever War," which explores the impacts of war and relativistic time dilation.
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B.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his inventive, genre-blending works such as the "Laundry Files" and "Merchant Princes" series.
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C.
Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan is a British science fiction author best known for his cyberpunk novel "Altered Carbon" and for writing the story for the video game Crysis 2.
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D.
Charles Gunn
Charles Gunn was an American silent film actor active in the 1910s.
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E.
Charles Gunn
Charles Gunn is a street-smart vampire hunter who becomes a key ally and member of Angel Investigations in the television series "Angel."
- 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 W. Geary Target entity description: John W. Geary was a 19th-century American politician and military officer who served as the first mayor of San Francisco, governor of the Kansas Territory, and governor of Pennsylvania.
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A.
Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman is an American science fiction author best known for his award-winning novel "The Forever War," which explores the impacts of war and relativistic time dilation.
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B.
Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British science fiction and fantasy author known for his inventive, genre-blending works such as the "Laundry Files" and "Merchant Princes" series.
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C.
Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan is a British science fiction author best known for his cyberpunk novel "Altered Carbon" and for writing the story for the video game Crysis 2.
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D.
Charles Gunn
Charles Gunn was an American silent film actor active in the 1910s.
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E.
Charles Gunn
Charles Gunn is a street-smart vampire hunter who becomes a key ally and member of Angel Investigations in the television series "Angel."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| allegiance | Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Harrisburg Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflict |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Mexican–American War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1819-12-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1873-02-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Jefferson College (now Washington & Jefferson College) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime |
Governor of Kansas Territory 1857
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Governor of Pennsylvania 1873 ⓘ first mayor of San Francisco 1851 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Geary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military leadership
ⓘ
public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Edward Ratchford Geary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
Republican Party ⓘ |
| middleName | White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
major general ⓘ |
| notableCommanderOf |
2nd Division, XII Corps, Army of the Potomac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2nd Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | efforts to pacify Bleeding Kansas ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Atlanta Campaign
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherman's March to the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Kansas Territory
ⓘ
Governor of Pennsylvania ⓘ Mayor of San Francisco ⓘ Union Army general ⓘ |
| residence |
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kansas Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Margaret Ann Logan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary Church Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
Governor of Kansas Territory 1856
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Governor of Pennsylvania 1867 ⓘ first mayor of San Francisco 1850 ⓘ |
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 W. Geary Description of subject: John W. Geary was a 19th-century American politician and military officer who served as the first mayor of San Francisco, governor of the Kansas Territory, and governor of Pennsylvania.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kansas Territory
subject surface form:
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park