John
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John is the first name of Jack Phillips, the British wireless operator on the RMS Titanic who died during its sinking in 1912.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13203453 — 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: [Jack Phillips, givenName, John]
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John
John is the nickname of John Riggins, a former American football running back best known for his Hall of Fame career with the Washington Redskins in the NFL.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Reith, the influential first Director-General of the BBC who shaped early public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
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C.
John
John is the given name of the American composer John Luther Adams, known for his works inspired by nature and environmental themes.
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D.
John
John is the first name of John Dashwood, a character in Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility."
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John
John is the given name of actor John Cho, a Korean American performer known for roles in the "Harold & Kumar" films and the "Star Trek" reboot series.
- 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 is the first name of Jack Phillips, the British wireless operator on the RMS Titanic who died during its sinking in 1912.
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John
John is the given name of John Philip Holland, the Irish engineer known for developing some of the first practical submarines.
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John
John is the given name of John Arbuthnot Fisher, a prominent British admiral and naval reformer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
John
John is the first name of Jack Bruce, the renowned Scottish musician, singer, and bassist best known as a member of the rock band Cream.
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John
John is the given name of John Logie Baird, the Scottish engineer and inventor who pioneered the development of television.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John Reith, the influential first Director-General of the BBC who shaped early public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 is the first name of Jack Phillips, the British wireless operator on the RMS Titanic who died during its sinking in 1912.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.