James W. Ewing
E1027777
James W. Ewing was a notable individual interred at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, recognized for his local prominence and contributions to his community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James W. Ewing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12532283 — 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: James W. Ewing Context triple: [Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, James W. Ewing]
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A.
David G. Burnet
David G. Burnet was an early political leader of the Republic of Texas who served as its interim president and later held other high offices in the fledgling Texan government.
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B.
Archibald H. Gillespie
Archibald H. Gillespie was a U.S. Marine Corps officer notable for his role in the Mexican–American War, particularly in early California campaigns.
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C.
Joseph P. Widney
Joseph P. Widney was an American physician, educator, and religious leader who played a key role in early Nazarene and holiness movements and served as the second president of the University of Southern California.
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D.
James Ewing
James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
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E.
James Ewing
James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
- 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: James W. Ewing Target entity description: James W. Ewing was a notable individual interred at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, recognized for his local prominence and contributions to his community.
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A.
David G. Burnet
David G. Burnet was an early political leader of the Republic of Texas who served as its interim president and later held other high offices in the fledgling Texan government.
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B.
Archibald H. Gillespie
Archibald H. Gillespie was a U.S. Marine Corps officer notable for his role in the Mexican–American War, particularly in early California campaigns.
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C.
Joseph P. Widney
Joseph P. Widney was an American physician, educator, and religious leader who played a key role in early Nazarene and holiness movements and served as the second president of the University of Southern California.
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D.
James Ewing
James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
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E.
James Ewing
James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| name | James W. Ewing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to his community
ⓘ
local prominence ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Evergreen Memorial Cemetery 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: James W. Ewing Description of subject: James W. Ewing was a notable individual interred at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, recognized for his local prominence and contributions to his community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois