John Henry
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John Henry was one of the early New York financiers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Henry canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T723669 — 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 Henry Context triple: [Buttonwood Agreement, signatory, John Henry]
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A.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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B.
Turner
Turner is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and entertainment.
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C.
Thomas Tinker
Thomas Tinker was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and died during the first harsh winter at Plymouth Colony.
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D.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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E.
Ogden Rood
Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
- 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 Henry Target entity description: John Henry was one of the early New York financiers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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A.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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B.
Turner
Turner is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across politics, arts, sports, and entertainment.
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C.
Thomas Tinker
Thomas Tinker was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and died during the first harsh winter at Plymouth Colony.
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D.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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E.
Ogden Rood
Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial agreement
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financier ⓘ person ⓘ stock exchange ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| date | 1792 ⓘ |
| dateOfSigning | 1792 ⓘ |
| hasPrecursor | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
| hasSignatory | John Henry self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| location |
New York City
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New York City ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the early New York financiers
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helping to found what became the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| occupation | financier ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| signatoryTo | Buttonwood Agreement ⓘ |
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 Henry Description of subject: John Henry was one of the early New York financiers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Buttonwood Agreement