John Cooke
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John Cooke was an English founder and benefactor best known for establishing The Crypt School in Gloucester.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Cooke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8973383 — 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 Cooke Context triple: [The Crypt School, Gloucester, foundedBy, John Cooke]
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A.
John Cooke
John Cooke was a Mayflower passenger and early settler of Plymouth Colony, known as the son of fellow Pilgrim Francis Cooke.
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B.
John Cooke
John Cooke was a Royal Navy officer best known for his service and death at the Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic Wars.
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C.
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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D.
Jon Cooksey
Jon Cooksey is a television and film writer best known for co-writing the popular Disney Channel movie "Halloweentown."
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E.
Walter Wheeler Cook
Walter Wheeler Cook was an influential American legal scholar and educator known as a leading figure in the legal realism movement.
- 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 Cooke Target entity description: John Cooke was an English founder and benefactor best known for establishing The Crypt School in Gloucester.
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A.
John Cooke
John Cooke was a Mayflower passenger and early settler of Plymouth Colony, known as the son of fellow Pilgrim Francis Cooke.
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B.
John Cooke
John Cooke was a Royal Navy officer best known for his service and death at the Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic Wars.
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C.
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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D.
Jon Cooksey
Jon Cooksey is a television and film writer best known for co-writing the popular Disney Channel movie "Halloweentown."
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E.
Walter Wheeler Cook
Walter Wheeler Cook was an influential American legal scholar and educator known as a leading figure in the legal realism movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English person
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founder ⓘ grammar school ⓘ person ⓘ school ⓘ |
| benefactorOf | The Crypt School, Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| founded | The Crypt School, Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | John Cooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAs | Founder of The Crypt School ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding The Crypt School, Gloucester ⓘ |
| occupation |
philanthropist
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school founder ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Cooke Description of subject: John Cooke was an English founder and benefactor best known for establishing The Crypt School in Gloucester.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.