John Ewing
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John Ewing was a military leader known for commanding forces at the Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Ewing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1311169 — 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 Ewing Context triple: [Battle of Stillman’s Run, commander, John Ewing]
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A.
Edward Carrington
Edward Carrington was an American Revolutionary War officer who distinguished himself as a key artillery commander in the Continental Army, particularly under General Nathanael Greene in the Southern Campaign.
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B.
Richard Channing
Richard Channing is a central, power-driven antagonist-turned-antihero in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his ruthless business tactics and complex family entanglements.
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C.
Sam Carmichael
Sam Carmichael is one of the central father-figure characters in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known as a former lover of Donna and a possible father of her daughter Sophie.
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D.
Jason Rhoades
Jason Rhoades was an American contemporary artist known for his large-scale, chaotic installations that combined everyday objects, neon signage, and provocative themes to critique consumer culture and social norms.
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E.
Robert Kardashian
Robert Kardashian was an American attorney and businessman best known for serving on O.J. Simpson’s defense team and as the father of reality TV star Kim Kardashian.
- 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 Ewing Target entity description: John Ewing was a military leader known for commanding forces at the Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
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A.
Edward Carrington
Edward Carrington was an American Revolutionary War officer who distinguished himself as a key artillery commander in the Continental Army, particularly under General Nathanael Greene in the Southern Campaign.
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B.
Richard Channing
Richard Channing is a central, power-driven antagonist-turned-antihero in the 1980s American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for his ruthless business tactics and complex family entanglements.
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C.
Sam Carmichael
Sam Carmichael is one of the central father-figure characters in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known as a former lover of Donna and a possible father of her daughter Sophie.
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D.
Jason Rhoades
Jason Rhoades was an American contemporary artist known for his large-scale, chaotic installations that combined everyday objects, neon signage, and provocative themes to critique consumer culture and social norms.
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E.
Robert Kardashian
Robert Kardashian was an American attorney and businessman best known for serving on O.J. Simpson’s defense team and as the father of reality TV star Kim Kardashian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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military leader ⓘ |
| activeIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| commanded | forces at the Battle of Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| conflict | Black Hawk War ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| engagement | Battle of Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| hasRole |
military commander
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officer in frontier warfare ⓘ |
| historicalContext | U.S. expansion into Native American lands in the early 19th century ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
United States militia
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linked to:
United States militia forces
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| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding forces at the Battle of Stillman’s Run ⓘ |
| opponent | Black Hawk ⓘ |
| opponentForce |
Sauk and Fox warriors
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linked to:
Sauk and Fox
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| participatedIn | Black Hawk War ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States forces in the Black Hawk War
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linked to:
United States frontier army
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| placeOfActivity | Illinois ⓘ |
| theaterOfWar | Old Northwest ⓘ |
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 Ewing Description of subject: John Ewing was a military leader known for commanding forces at the Battle of Stillman’s Run during the Black Hawk War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.