John Riley Tanner
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John Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Riley Tanner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T385748 — 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 Riley Tanner Context triple: [Oak Ridge Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, John Riley Tanner]
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A.
J. Dallas Dort
J. Dallas Dort was an American automobile pioneer and industrialist best known as the co-founder of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, a key precursor to General Motors.
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B.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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C.
Asa Gilbert Eddy
Asa Gilbert Eddy was the husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and is noted for being her first follower and supporter in establishing the movement.
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D.
James T. Sutherland
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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E.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
- 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 Riley Tanner Target entity description: John Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901.
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A.
J. Dallas Dort
J. Dallas Dort was an American automobile pioneer and industrialist best known as the co-founder of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, a key precursor to General Motors.
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B.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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C.
Asa Gilbert Eddy
Asa Gilbert Eddy was the husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and is noted for being her first follower and supporter in establishing the movement.
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D.
James T. Sutherland
James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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E.
Albert D. Wheelon
Albert D. Wheelon was an American physicist and intelligence official known for his pioneering role in developing U.S. satellite reconnaissance programs and later contributions to aerospace and national security policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Tanner ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Illinois
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linked to:
Illinois
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| middleName | Riley ⓘ |
| name | John Riley Tanner ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as the 21st governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeEnd | 1901 ⓘ |
| officeStart | 1897 ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 21st Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| politicalRole | state governor ⓘ |
| politicalTerritoryGoverned | Illinois ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| residenceWhileInOffice | Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
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 Riley Tanner Description of subject: John Riley Tanner was an American politician who served as the 21st governor of Illinois from 1897 to 1901.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.