James Johnson
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James Johnson was an 18th-century Scottish music engraver and publisher best known for compiling and publishing the influential folk song collection "The Scots Musical Museum."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Johnson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7246432 — 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: James Johnson Context triple: [The Scots Musical Museum, compiler, James Johnson]
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A.
James Johnson
James Johnson was a participant in the War of 1812, remembered for his role in the Battle of the Thames.
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B.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
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C.
Joe Johnson
Joe Johnson is a music producer known for his work on the song "Hello Mary Lou."
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D.
James William Johnson
James William Johnson is the American football coach and broadcaster better known as Jimmy Johnson, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
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E.
James William Johnson
James William Johnson is an individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
- 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: James Johnson Target entity description: James Johnson was an 18th-century Scottish music engraver and publisher best known for compiling and publishing the influential folk song collection "The Scots Musical Museum."
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A.
James Johnson
James Johnson was a participant in the War of 1812, remembered for his role in the Battle of the Thames.
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B.
Christopher Johnson
Christopher Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
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C.
Joe Johnson
Joe Johnson is a music producer known for his work on the song "Hello Mary Lou."
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D.
James William Johnson
James William Johnson is the American football coach and broadcaster better known as Jimmy Johnson, who led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1990s.
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E.
James William Johnson
James William Johnson is an individual whose specific public notability or distinguishing achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century Scottish person
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compiler ⓘ music engraver ⓘ music publisher ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Scottish folk music
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traditional Scottish songs ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
music engraving
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music publishing ⓘ |
| genre | folk music ⓘ |
| hasGenre | folk song collection ⓘ |
| influenced | preservation of Scottish folk song tradition ⓘ |
| knownFor |
compiling "The Scots Musical Museum"
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publishing "The Scots Musical Museum" ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Scots Musical Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
compiler of folk songs
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music engraver ⓘ music publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationType | engraved music collections ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
compiler of songs in "The Scots Musical Museum"
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publisher of "The Scots Musical Museum" ⓘ |
| specialization | Scottish folk songs ⓘ |
| workInfluence |
important source for traditional Scottish songs
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influential in Scottish music history ⓘ |
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: James Johnson Description of subject: James Johnson was an 18th-century Scottish music engraver and publisher best known for compiling and publishing the influential folk song collection "The Scots Musical Museum."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.