John
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John is the given name of the American historian and author John W. Dower, known for his influential works on modern Japanese history and World War II.
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 T7217966 — 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.
Target entity: John Context triple: [John W. Dower, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John Paul Stevens, a long-serving associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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John
John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for his executive role at General Motors and for financing and promoting the construction of the Empire State Building.
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John
John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
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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.
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John
John is the given name of John Francis Dodge, an American automobile pioneer and co-founder of the Dodge Brothers Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Target entity description: John is the given name of the American historian and author John W. Dower, known for his influential works on modern Japanese history and World War II.
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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 the renowned American author John Steinbeck, known for works such as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men."
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John
John is the given name of the American novelist and artist John Dos Passos, known for his modernist U.S.A. trilogy.
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John
John is the given name of John Dickinson, an American Founding Father known for his writings advocating colonial rights and cautious resistance to British rule.
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John
John is the given name of John Foster Dulles, a prominent 20th-century American diplomat and U.S. Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration.
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Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
historiography of Japan
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historiography of World War II ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bancroft Prize
NERFINISHED
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Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Amherst College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
World War II history
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modern Japanese history ⓘ |
| genre |
history
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of race and power in the Pacific War
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scholarship on postwar Japan ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
NERFINISHED
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan in War and Peace NERFINISHED ⓘ War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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historian ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor Emeritus
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Professor of History ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: John Description of subject: John is the given name of the American historian and author John W. Dower, known for his influential works on modern Japanese history and World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.