John Howland
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John Howland was an English colonist and Mayflower passenger who became a prominent early settler and leader in Plymouth Colony.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Howland canonical | 27 |
| John Howland Jr. | 5 |
| Infant Howland | 1 |
| John Howland (by marriage through Elizabeth Tilley) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T88124 — 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 Howland Context triple: [Mayflower Compact, signedBy, John Howland]
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A.
John Carver
John Carver was a prominent early Pilgrim leader who became the first governor of Plymouth Colony after the Mayflower’s arrival in 1620.
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B.
Raleigh Becket
Raleigh Becket is the main Jaeger pilot protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim," known for co-piloting the giant robot Gipsy Danger against invading Kaiju.
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C.
Frank Sullivan
Frank Sullivan is an American college basketball coach best known for his long tenure leading the Harvard Crimson men's basketball program.
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D.
Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 teen comedy-drama film about a wealthy but troubled high school student who becomes an amateur psychiatrist for his classmates.
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E.
Jack Ramsay
Jack Ramsay was a Hall of Fame NBA head coach best known for leading the Portland Trail Blazers to their 1977 championship and for his long, influential career in professional basketball.
- 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 Howland Target entity description: John Howland was an English colonist and Mayflower passenger who became a prominent early settler and leader in Plymouth Colony.
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A.
John Carver
John Carver was a prominent early Pilgrim leader who became the first governor of Plymouth Colony after the Mayflower’s arrival in 1620.
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B.
Raleigh Becket
Raleigh Becket is the main Jaeger pilot protagonist in the science fiction film "Pacific Rim," known for co-piloting the giant robot Gipsy Danger against invading Kaiju.
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C.
Frank Sullivan
Frank Sullivan is an American college basketball coach best known for his long tenure leading the Harvard Crimson men's basketball program.
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D.
Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 teen comedy-drama film about a wealthy but troubled high school student who becomes an amateur psychiatrist for his classmates.
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E.
Jack Ramsay
Jack Ramsay was a Hall of Fame NBA head coach best known for leading the Portland Trail Blazers to their 1977 championship and for his long, influential career in professional basketball.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Howland Description of subject: John Howland was an English colonist and Mayflower passenger who became a prominent early settler and leader in Plymouth Colony.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Howland
linked to: John Howland
linked to: John Howland
linked to: John Howland
subject linked to:
Howland
subject linked to:
Howland family
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger John Howland
linked to: John Howland
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley
linked to: John Howland
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger John Tilley
linked to: John Howland