John Adams (cricketer)
E111546
John Adams (cricketer) was an English first-class cricketer active in the late 19th century, known for playing for Derbyshire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Adams (cricketer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T926833 — 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 Adams (cricketer) Context triple: [Adams, hasNotableBearer, John Adams (cricketer)]
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A.
John Adams (footballer)
John Adams (footballer) was a Scottish professional footballer best known as a forward who played for clubs including St Mirren and Ayr United in the mid-20th century.
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B.
W. A. Gayle
W. A. Gayle was the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, during the mid-1950s whose administration was central to the landmark civil rights case Browder v. Gayle that ended bus segregation in the city.
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C.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as the son of Benjamin A. Smith II.
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D.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith was a pioneering American public health reformer and physician who played a key role in advancing modern public health systems in the United States.
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E.
Thomas Adams
Thomas Adams was a pioneering British-Canadian urban planner and housing reformer who played a leading role in advancing the early 20th-century garden city and town planning movements.
- 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 Adams (cricketer) Target entity description: John Adams (cricketer) was an English first-class cricketer active in the late 19th century, known for playing for Derbyshire.
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A.
John Adams (footballer)
John Adams (footballer) was a Scottish professional footballer best known as a forward who played for clubs including St Mirren and Ayr United in the mid-20th century.
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B.
W. A. Gayle
W. A. Gayle was the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, during the mid-1950s whose administration was central to the landmark civil rights case Browder v. Gayle that ended bus segregation in the city.
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C.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as the son of Benjamin A. Smith II.
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D.
Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith was a pioneering American public health reformer and physician who played a key role in advancing modern public health systems in the United States.
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E.
Thomas Adams
Thomas Adams was a pioneering British-Canadian urban planner and housing reformer who played a leading role in advancing the early 20th-century garden city and town planning movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cricketer
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first-class cricketer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | late 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| league | English first-class cricket ⓘ |
| notableFor | playing first-class cricket for Derbyshire ⓘ |
| occupation | cricketer ⓘ |
| playedFor | Derbyshire County Cricket Club ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| team | Derbyshire ⓘ |
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 Adams (cricketer) Description of subject: John Adams (cricketer) was an English first-class cricketer active in the late 19th century, known for playing for Derbyshire.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.