John
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John M. Chivington was a Union Army officer and Methodist minister best known for leading the controversial Sand Creek Massacre during the American Civil War.
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 T11080225 — 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 M. Chivington, 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 M. Chivington was a Union Army officer and Methodist minister best known for leading the controversial Sand Creek Massacre during the American Civil War.
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John
John is the given name of John Buford, a notable Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War.
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John
John is the given name of John F. Reynolds, a Union Army general who served during the American Civil War.
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John
John is the given name of John C. Pemberton, a Confederate general best known for his role in the American Civil War, particularly the Siege of Vicksburg.
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John
John is the given name of John Alexander Logan, a prominent 19th-century American Civil War general and influential politician.
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John
John is the given name of John Bell Hood, a Confederate general known for his aggressive command during the American Civil War.
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Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Methodist minister
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Union Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States (Union) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1821-01-27 ⓘ |
| birthName | John Milton Chivington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Lebanon, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfNotoriety | ordering attack on Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment at Sand Creek ⓘ |
| commanded | Colorado volunteers at Sand Creek ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1894-10-04 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Denver, Colorado, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Methodist religious training ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Chivington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent |
ordination as a Methodist minister
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resignation from the army following Sand Creek investigations ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
controversial figure in U.S. military history
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perpetrator of atrocities against Native Americans at Sand Creek ⓘ |
| heldRank | colonel of volunteers ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | American Civil War era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Commanding U.S. forces at the Sand Creek Massacre ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | Colorado Volunteer Cavalry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Methodist Episcopal Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Leadership of the Sand Creek Massacre ⓘ |
| occupation |
clergyman
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Sand Creek Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Union forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of the District of Colorado (Union Army) ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTitle | Methodist minister ⓘ |
| residence |
Colorado Territory
NERFINISHED
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Denver, Colorado, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | congressional investigations into Sand Creek Massacre ⓘ |
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 M. Chivington was a Union Army officer and Methodist minister best known for leading the controversial Sand Creek Massacre during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
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