John
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John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, was a British Army field marshal who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff and later as Governor of Cyprus during the 1950s.
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 T10932016 — 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 Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, givenName, John]
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John
John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
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John
John is the first name of Johnny Evers, a Hall of Fame American Major League Baseball second baseman who starred for the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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John
John is the given name of John B. Watson, the influential American psychologist who founded behaviorism.
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John
John is the given name of John Dustin Archbold, an American oil industry executive and key figure in the early history of Standard Oil.
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John
John is the given name of John Brisker, an American professional basketball player known for his time in the ABA and NBA and his mysterious disappearance in the 1970s.
- 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 Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, was a British Army field marshal who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff and later as Governor of Cyprus during the 1950s.
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John
John is the given name of Lord Gort, a British Army officer and World War II field marshal.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Colborne, a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and later as Lord Seaton.
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John
John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, was a Scottish nobleman and politician who served as the first Governor-General of Australia.
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John
John is the given name of John Rushworth Jellicoe, the British admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland and later served as First Sea Lord and Governor-General of New Zealand.
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John
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl, was a Scottish peer and soldier who served as a senior officer in the British Army and held prominent aristocratic and civic roles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ⓘ field marshal ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| appointed | Governor of Cyprus in 1955 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)
NERFINISHED
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Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France) NERFINISHED ⓘ Distinguished Service Order ⓘ Efficiency Decoration NERFINISHED ⓘ Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath NERFINISHED ⓘ Knight of the Garter NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Military Cross ⓘ Order of George I NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of the Phoenix (Greece) NERFINISHED ⓘ Virtuti Militari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | John Charles Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded |
8th Armoured Division
NERFINISHED
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Allied Land Forces, Central Mediterranean NERFINISHED ⓘ British Army of the Rhine NERFINISHED ⓘ XIII Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Cyprus Emergency
NERFINISHED
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World War I ⓘ
surface form:
First World War
World War II ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1896-02-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-01-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | War Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Lords ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Field Marshal ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Baron Harding of Petherton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Counter-insurgency operations during the Cyprus Emergency ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Woking, Surrey, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nether Compton, Dorset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief of the Imperial General Staff
NERFINISHED
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Governor of Cyprus ⓘ High Commissioner of Cyprus ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Hugh Foot, 1st Baron Caradon, as Governor of Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Petherton, Somerset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1958 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1915 ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Gertrude Harding, Baroness Harding of Petherton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | 1st Baron Harding of Petherton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, was a British Army field marshal who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff and later as Governor of Cyprus during the 1950s.
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