John
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John Snow was a pioneering 19th-century English physician widely regarded as one of the founders of modern epidemiology for his work tracing a cholera outbreak to contaminated water.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12470480 — 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 Snow, givenName, John]
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John
John B. Magruder was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and his flamboyant personality.
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John
John is the given name of John Howard, an Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia.
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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 is the given name of John Foxe the Younger, an English clergyman and son of the martyrologist John Foxe.
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John
John is the given name of John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, a prominent 19th-century British lawyer and Conservative politician who served three times as Lord Chancellor.
- 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 Snow was a pioneering 19th-century English physician widely regarded as one of the founders of modern epidemiology for his work tracing a cholera outbreak to contaminated water.
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John
John is the given name of John Zephaniah Holwell, an 18th-century British surgeon, colonial administrator, and writer associated with the East India Company.
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John Harvey Kellogg was an American medical doctor, nutritionist, and health reformer best known for developing corn flakes and promoting vegetarianism and wellness at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
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John
John is the given name of John Boyd Orr, a Scottish nutritionist and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global food policy and security.
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John
John is the given name of John James Rickard Macleod, the Scottish physiologist and co-recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of insulin.
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John
John is the given name of John Bodkin Adams, a British physician notorious for being suspected of murdering numerous patients in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.