John Silas Reed
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John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist best known for his firsthand account of the Russian Revolution in his book "Ten Days That Shook the World."
All labels observed (1)
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| John Silas Reed canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9798571 — 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 Silas Reed Context triple: [John Reed, fullName, John Silas Reed]
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Sidney A. Franklin
Sidney A. Franklin was an American film director and producer best known for his work during Hollywood’s classical era, including several acclaimed literary adaptations.
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Daniel Giraud Elliot
Daniel Giraud Elliot was a 19th-century American zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential works on birds and mammals and for helping to found the American Museum of Natural History.
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C.
John Heyl Vincent
John Heyl Vincent was an American Methodist bishop and educator best known as the co-founder of the Chautauqua movement, which promoted adult education and cultural enrichment.
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D.
Charles Jerome Daly
Charles Jerome Daly was an American basketball coach best known for leading the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships and coaching the 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team."
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E.
Arthur Cutts Willard
Arthur Cutts Willard was an American engineer and academic who served as president of the University of Illinois in the early 20th century.
- 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 Silas Reed Target entity description: John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist best known for his firsthand account of the Russian Revolution in his book "Ten Days That Shook the World."
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A.
Sidney A. Franklin
Sidney A. Franklin was an American film director and producer best known for his work during Hollywood’s classical era, including several acclaimed literary adaptations.
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B.
Daniel Giraud Elliot
Daniel Giraud Elliot was a 19th-century American zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential works on birds and mammals and for helping to found the American Museum of Natural History.
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C.
John Heyl Vincent
John Heyl Vincent was an American Methodist bishop and educator best known as the co-founder of the Chautauqua movement, which promoted adult education and cultural enrichment.
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D.
Charles Jerome Daly
Charles Jerome Daly was an American basketball coach best known for leading the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships and coaching the 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team."
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E.
Arthur Cutts Willard
Arthur Cutts Willard was an American engineer and academic who served as president of the University of Illinois in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ poet ⓘ socialist activist ⓘ |
| activeIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | John Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | John Silas Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kremlin Wall Necropolis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | typhus ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredEvent | Russian Revolution of 1917 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1887-10-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1920-10-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
Metropolitan Magazine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Masses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | John Silas Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
poetry
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political journalism ⓘ war reporting ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | firsthand account of the Russian Revolution ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Moscow, Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | disease ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Communist Labor Party of America
NERFINISHED
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Industrial Workers of the World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | American radical left ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ten Days That Shook the World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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poet ⓘ political activist ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Portland, Oregon, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Moscow, Russian SFSR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology |
communism
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socialism ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Silas Reed
NERFINISHED
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Louise Bryant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject | Russian Revolution of 1917 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
Mexican Revolution
NERFINISHED
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labor movements in the United States ⓘ |
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 Silas Reed Description of subject: John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist best known for his firsthand account of the Russian Revolution in his book "Ten Days That Shook the World."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.