John Overall
E111520
John Overall was an English bishop and theologian who played a significant role in the early 17th century, including contributing to the translation of the King James Bible.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Overall canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T898965 — 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 Overall Context triple: [Committee of translators appointed by King James I, notableMember, John Overall]
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A.
John Grandy
John Grandy was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become a leading commander of British fighter forces during and after the Second World War.
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B.
Dan Osborn
Dan Osborn is a music industry figure best known as a founder of the independent record label Drag City.
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C.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
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D.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
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E.
John Billington
John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
- 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 Overall Target entity description: John Overall was an English bishop and theologian who played a significant role in the early 17th century, including contributing to the translation of the King James Bible.
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A.
John Grandy
John Grandy was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become a leading commander of British fighter forces during and after the Second World War.
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B.
Dan Osborn
Dan Osborn is a music industry figure best known as a founder of the independent record label Drag City.
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C.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
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D.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
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E.
John Billington
John Billington was an English settler best known as one of the Mayflower passengers at Plymouth Colony and the first person executed for murder in what became the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English bishop
ⓘ
person ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
17th century
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late 16th century ⓘ |
| clergyType | Anglican bishop ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St John’s College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biblical scholarship
ⓘ
theology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
participation in the translation of the King James Bible
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role in early 17th-century English theology ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Church of England clergy ⓘ |
| notableFor | influence on Anglican doctrinal formulation ⓘ |
| notableWork | contribution to the King James Bible translation ⓘ |
| occupation |
bishop
ⓘ
theologian ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
ⓘ
linked to:
Bishop of Coventry
Bishop of Norwich ⓘ Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral ⓘ Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge
ⓘ
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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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 Overall Description of subject: John Overall was an English bishop and theologian who played a significant role in the early 17th century, including contributing to the translation of the King James Bible.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.