John Adams
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John Adams is a 2008 HBO historical miniseries that dramatizes the life and political career of the second U.S. president, John Adams, during the founding of the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Adams canonical | 16 |
| Thomas Jefferson in John Adams | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005961 — 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 Adams Context triple: [Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series, notableWinner, John Adams]
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John Adams
John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who served as the nation’s second president and was a leading advocate for independence and republican government.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and a leading figure of early American political and intellectual life.
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James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States, best known for the Monroe Doctrine and for overseeing an era of national expansion and relative political unity in the early 19th century.
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James Madison
James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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E.
John Adam
John Adam was a member of the prominent Adam family of Scottish architects and designers in the 18th century.
- 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 Adams Target entity description: John Adams is a 2008 HBO historical miniseries that dramatizes the life and political career of the second U.S. president, John Adams, during the founding of the United States.
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A.
John Adams
John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who served as the nation’s second president and was a leading advocate for independence and republican government.
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B.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and a leading figure of early American political and intellectual life.
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C.
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States, best known for the Monroe Doctrine and for overseeing an era of national expansion and relative political unity in the early 19th century.
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D.
James Madison
James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and a key architect of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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E.
John Adam
John Adam was a member of the prominent Adam family of Scottish architects and designers in the 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Adams Description of subject: John Adams is a 2008 HBO historical miniseries that dramatizes the life and political career of the second U.S. president, John Adams, during the founding of the United States.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.