John
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John is the given name of the influential British evolutionary biologist and geneticist John Maynard Smith.
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 T7026389 — 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 Maynard Smith, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John H. Hammond Jr., the influential American record producer and talent scout known for discovering and promoting numerous major jazz, blues, and rock musicians.
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John
John is the given name of John F. Sattler, likely referring to him in a more informal or abbreviated context.
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John
John is the given name of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer.
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John
John is the given name of John Hersey, the American writer and journalist renowned for his groundbreaking reportage on the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Borlase Warren, a prominent British naval officer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- 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 is the given name of the influential British evolutionary biologist and geneticist John Maynard Smith.
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John
John is the given name of the renowned British mathematician John H. Conway, known for his work in group theory, number theory, and the invention of the Game of Life.
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John
John is the given name of the British biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew, a Nobel laureate known for determining the structure of myoglobin.
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John
John is the given name of the influential English philosopher John Locke, a key figure in empiricism and liberal political theory.
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John
John is the given name of John McCarthy, the American computer scientist who coined the term "artificial intelligence" and was a pioneer in the field.
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John
John is the given name of the Scottish mathematician and geologist John Playfair, known for his work on geometry and for popularizing James Hutton’s theories of geology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
evolutionary biologist
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geneticist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Copley Medal
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Darwin Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyoto Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Eton College
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Trinity College, Cambridge ⓘ University College London ⓘ |
| employer | University of Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
evolutionary biology
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population genetics ⓘ theoretical biology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Maynard Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
applying game theory to evolution
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evolutionarily stable strategy concept ⓘ work on the evolution of sex ⓘ work on the evolution of signalling ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Evolution and the Theory of Games
NERFINISHED
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The Evolution of Sex NERFINISHED ⓘ The Theory of Evolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
evolutionary biologist
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geneticist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex ⓘ |
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 is the given name of the influential British evolutionary biologist and geneticist John Maynard Smith.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.