John
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John Glas was an 18th-century Scottish clergyman best known for founding the Glasite (or Sandemanian) church movement that emphasized primitive Christian practices and congregational independence.
All labels observed (1)
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18371683 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Context triple: [John Glas, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
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John
John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
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John
John Ross is a personal name shared by various notable individuals across history, including leaders, politicians, and public figures.
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John
John is the first name of Jack Graney, a Canadian Major League Baseball player and later a pioneering baseball broadcaster.
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John
John is the given first name of the American Old West outlaw and gunfighter Johnny Ringo.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Target entity description: John Glas was an 18th-century Scottish clergyman best known for founding the Glasite (or Sandemanian) church movement that emphasized primitive Christian practices and congregational independence.
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John
John Graham of Claverhouse, commonly known as "Bonnie Dundee," was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and soldier noted for his role as a Jacobite leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Glorious Revolution.
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John
John is the given name of J. Gresham Machen, an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar.
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John
John is the given name of John Charles Ryle, a prominent 19th-century English evangelical Anglican bishop and influential Christian writer.
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John
John is the middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
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John
John is the given name of John Heyl Vincent, a 19th-century American Methodist bishop and co-founder of the Chautauqua movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.