James Presley
E166442
James Presley is an author known for co-writing works with John T. Scopes, the teacher at the center of the famous 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Presley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1439950 — 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: James Presley Context triple: [John T. Scopes, coAuthor, James Presley]
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A.
Augustus Hill Garland
Augustus Hill Garland was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Attorney General under President Grover Cleveland.
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B.
William Arthur
William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
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C.
James Jackson
James Jackson was an early 19th-century American physician best known as a co-founder and pioneering leader of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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D.
Joseph Jefferson Jackson
Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson was an American Major League Baseball outfielder renowned as one of the greatest natural hitters in the sport’s history and controversially linked to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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E.
James Henry Thomas
James Henry Thomas was a prominent British Labour politician and trade union leader who served as Colonial Secretary and played a key role in early 20th-century UK governance.
- 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: James Presley Target entity description: James Presley is an author known for co-writing works with John T. Scopes, the teacher at the center of the famous 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution.
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A.
Augustus Hill Garland
Augustus Hill Garland was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Attorney General under President Grover Cleveland.
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B.
William Arthur
William Arthur was an Irish-born Baptist minister best known as the father of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur.
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C.
John Marshall Clemens
John Marshall Clemens was an American lawyer, judge, and the father of author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
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D.
James Jackson
James Jackson was an early 19th-century American physician best known as a co-founder and pioneering leader of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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E.
Joseph Jefferson Jackson
Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson was an American Major League Baseball outfielder renowned as one of the greatest natural hitters in the sport’s history and controversially linked to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | author ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| basedOn | Scopes Monkey Trial court records ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | John T. Scopes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
American history
ⓘ
history of science ⓘ legal history ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
ⓘ
history ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborating with John T. Scopes
ⓘ
linked to:
John T. Scopes
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAssociate | John T. Scopes ⓘ |
| notableEventDescribed |
Scopes Monkey Trial
ⓘ
linked to:
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
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| notableWork | co-written works with John T. Scopes ⓘ |
| occupation | author ⓘ |
| subjectOf | teaching of evolution controversy ⓘ |
| workSubject |
Scopes Monkey Trial
ⓘ
linked to:
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
teaching of evolution in U.S. schools ⓘ |
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: James Presley Description of subject: James Presley is an author known for co-writing works with John T. Scopes, the teacher at the center of the famous 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.