John T. Scopes
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John T. Scopes was an American high school teacher best known for being tried in 1925 for teaching evolution in the landmark Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John T. Scopes canonical | 19 |
| John Thomas Scopes | 2 |
| John Scopes | 1 |
| John T. Scopes as defendant in Scopes Trial | 1 |
| collaborating with John T. Scopes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T243018 — 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 T. Scopes Context triple: [Scopes "Monkey" Trial, prosecutedPerson, John T. Scopes]
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a prominent American defense attorney and civil libertarian best known for his high-profile cases like the Scopes "Monkey" Trial and his advocacy for individual rights and social justice.
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William P. Frye
William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
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C.
Henry Wade
Henry Wade was the Dallas County district attorney whose role in enforcing Texas abortion laws led to his being the named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.
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D.
Thomas Tinker
Thomas Tinker was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and died during the first harsh winter at Plymouth Colony.
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E.
Dewey
Dewey is the main town and administrative center of the island-municipality of Culebra, Puerto Rico.
- 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 T. Scopes Target entity description: John T. Scopes was an American high school teacher best known for being tried in 1925 for teaching evolution in the landmark Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
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A.
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was a prominent American defense attorney and civil libertarian best known for his high-profile cases like the Scopes "Monkey" Trial and his advocacy for individual rights and social justice.
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B.
William P. Frye
William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
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C.
Henry Wade
Henry Wade was the Dallas County district attorney whose role in enforcing Texas abortion laws led to his being the named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.
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D.
Thomas Tinker
Thomas Tinker was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower and died during the first harsh winter at Plymouth Colony.
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E.
Dewey
Dewey is the main town and administrative center of the island-municipality of Culebra, Puerto Rico.
- 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 T. Scopes Description of subject: John T. Scopes was an American high school teacher best known for being tried in 1925 for teaching evolution in the landmark Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John T. Scopes
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Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Rhea County (for the Scopes Trial)
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Scopes
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linked to: John T. Scopes
National Historic Landmark District related to Scopes Trial sites
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subject linked to:
National Historic Landmark District (related to Scopes Trial sites)