John Templeton McCarty
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John Templeton McCarty was one of the original founders of the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity, helping to establish its principles and early organization in the mid-19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Templeton McCarty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6882301 — 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 Templeton McCarty Context triple: [Phi Gamma Delta, hasFoundingMember, John Templeton McCarty]
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A.
Richard Maxwell
Richard Maxwell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," adapted from Wade Davis's non-fiction book about Haitian Vodou and zombification.
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B.
James L. Massey
James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
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C.
Charles Evans Whittaker
Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
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D.
John Perry
John Perry is an American poet, essayist, and cyberlibertarian activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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E.
Robert McDermott
Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
- 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 Templeton McCarty Target entity description: John Templeton McCarty was one of the original founders of the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity, helping to establish its principles and early organization in the mid-19th century.
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A.
Richard Maxwell
Richard Maxwell is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "The Serpent and the Rainbow," adapted from Wade Davis's non-fiction book about Haitian Vodou and zombification.
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B.
James L. Massey
James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
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C.
Charles Evans Whittaker
Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
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D.
John Perry
John Perry is an American poet, essayist, and cyberlibertarian activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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E.
Robert McDermott
Robert McDermott is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals and public figures in various fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fraternity founder
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person ⓘ |
| activeIn | mid-19th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Johnny
NERFINISHED
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Mac NERFINISHED ⓘ McCarty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
DePauw University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington & Jefferson College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1828-08-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Brookville, Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Yreka, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Phi Gamma Delta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1860-02-04 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Yreka, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Indiana Asbury University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jefferson College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McCarty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | fraternity organization ⓘ |
| foundingMemberOf | Phi Gamma Delta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname |
Johnny
NERFINISHED
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Mac NERFINISHED ⓘ McCarty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfFoundersInGroup | 6 ⓘ |
| helpedEstablish |
early organization of Phi Gamma Delta
ⓘ
principles of Phi Gamma Delta ⓘ |
| memberOf | Phi Gamma Delta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Templeton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding Phi Gamma Delta fraternity ⓘ |
| occupation | student leader ⓘ |
| partOf | Immortal Six of Phi Gamma Delta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Templeton McCarty Description of subject: John Templeton McCarty was one of the original founders of the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity, helping to establish its principles and early organization in the mid-19th century.
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