John
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John LeConte was a 19th-century American physicist and academic who served as president of the University of California.
All labels observed (1)
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| John canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21790763 — 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: [John LeConte, givenName, John]
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John
John Vassall Jr. was a British civil servant who became notorious as a Soviet spy during the Cold War.
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John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
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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 is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
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John
John is the given name of John George Graves, a notable British mail-order entrepreneur and philanthropist from Sheffield.
- 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 LeConte was a 19th-century American physicist and academic who served as president of the University of California.
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John
John is the given name of John Milton Gregory, a 19th-century American educator and university president known for helping to found the University of Illinois.
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John C. Calhoun was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and political theorist who served as U.S. vice president, senator, and a leading proponent of states’ rights and slavery.
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John
John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist and academic leader best known as a pioneer of RISC architecture and as the former president of Stanford University.
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John
John is the given name of John Merle Coulter, an American botanist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy and education.
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John
John is the given name of John Galen Howard, a prominent American architect known for his influential work on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John LeConte, American physicist