John
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John of Montfort was a 14th-century nobleman involved in the Breton succession disputes during the Hundred Years’ 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 T11390809 — 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 Context triple: [John of Montfort, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John Nance Garner, who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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John
John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
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John
John is the given name of John Cassin, a 19th-century American ornithologist known for his extensive work in classifying North American birds.
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John
John Adams II was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the sixth president John Quincy Adams’s son and the grandson of President John Adams.
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John
John St. Clair Drake was an influential American sociologist and anthropologist known for his pioneering studies of race relations and urban Black life.
- 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 Target entity description: John of Montfort was a 14th-century nobleman involved in the Breton succession disputes during the Hundred Years’ War.
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John
John the Fearless was a powerful early 15th-century Duke of Burgundy known for his aggressive political maneuvers and pivotal role in the French civil conflicts of the Hundred Years’ War.
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John
John II of France was a 14th-century King of France, known as "John the Good," whose reign was marked by the Hundred Years' War and his capture at the Battle of Poitiers.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Woodville, a 15th-century English nobleman associated with the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
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John
John of Bohemia was a 14th-century King of Bohemia and Count of Luxembourg, renowned as a chivalric warrior who famously died fighting blind at the Battle of Crécy.
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John
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, was a 14th-century English prince and younger son of King Edward II of England.
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Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
14th-century nobleman
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Breton noble ⓘ claimant to the Duchy of Brittany ⓘ human ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| activeDuring | Hundred Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Jean de Bretagne
NERFINISHED
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Jean de Montfort NERFINISHED ⓘ John of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 14th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
Breton War of Succession
NERFINISHED
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Hundred Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Duchy of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dispute | Breton ducal succession ⓘ |
| familyName | Montfort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Anglo-French rivalry in Brittany ⓘ |
| name | John of Montfort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Montfort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Count
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Duke of Brittany claimant ⓘ |
| notableFor |
claim to the Duchy of Brittany
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involvement in the Hundred Years' War ⓘ role in Breton succession disputes ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Blois-Penthièvre faction in Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Breton War of Succession
NERFINISHED
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Breton succession disputes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Breton nobility ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Montfortist faction in Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Brittany 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 Description of subject: John of Montfort was a 14th-century nobleman involved in the Breton succession disputes during the Hundred Years’ War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.