John Anglin
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John Anglin was a real-life American bank robber best known as one of the three inmates who carried out the infamous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Anglin canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T755283 — 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 Anglin Context triple: [Escape from Alcatraz, mainCharacter, John Anglin]
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A.
Jacques Demers
Jacques Demers is a Canadian former NHL head coach best known for leading the Montreal Canadiens to the 1993 Stanley Cup championship.
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B.
Roy Urquhart
Roy Urquhart was a British Army major-general best known for leading the 1st Airborne Division during World War II, particularly in the failed Operation Market Garden at Arnhem in 1944.
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C.
Claude Ryan
Claude Ryan was an American businessman best known for co-founding the package delivery company that became United Parcel Service (UPS).
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D.
Douglas Dillon
Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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E.
Percy Nelles
Percy Nelles was a Canadian admiral who served as Chief of the Naval Staff during World War II and played a key leadership role in the Royal Canadian Navy’s efforts in the Battle of the Atlantic.
- 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 Anglin Target entity description: John Anglin was a real-life American bank robber best known as one of the three inmates who carried out the infamous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison.
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A.
Jacques Demers
Jacques Demers is a Canadian former NHL head coach best known for leading the Montreal Canadiens to the 1993 Stanley Cup championship.
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B.
Roy Urquhart
Roy Urquhart was a British Army major-general best known for leading the 1st Airborne Division during World War II, particularly in the failed Operation Market Garden at Arnhem in 1944.
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C.
Claude Ryan
Claude Ryan was an American businessman best known for co-founding the package delivery company that became United Parcel Service (UPS).
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D.
Douglas Dillon
Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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E.
Percy Nelles
Percy Nelles was a Canadian admiral who served as Chief of the Naval Staff during World War II and played a key leadership role in the Royal Canadian Navy’s efforts in the Battle of the Atlantic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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 Anglin Description of subject: John Anglin was a real-life American bank robber best known as one of the three inmates who carried out the infamous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Escape from Alcatraz
subject surface form:
Frank Lee Morris
subject surface form:
Clarence Anglin
subject surface form:
1962 Alcatraz escape