John C. Sheehan
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John C. Sheehan was an American organic chemist best known for achieving the first complete laboratory synthesis of penicillin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John C. Sheehan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2947658 — 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 C. Sheehan Context triple: [Elias J. Corey, doctoralAdvisor, John C. Sheehan]
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A.
Peter S. Seaman
Peter S. Seaman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing major Hollywood films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Shrek the Third."
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B.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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C.
James Jones
James Jones is a former NBA player who became a basketball executive and now leads the Phoenix Suns’ front office.
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D.
James Jones
James Jones is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor.
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E.
William A. Shea
William A. Shea was an American lawyer and civic leader best known for spearheading the return of National League baseball to New York City, leading to the founding of the New York Mets and the naming of Shea Stadium in his honor.
- 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 C. Sheehan Target entity description: John C. Sheehan was an American organic chemist best known for achieving the first complete laboratory synthesis of penicillin.
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A.
Peter S. Seaman
Peter S. Seaman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing major Hollywood films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Shrek the Third."
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B.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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C.
James Jones
James Jones is a former NBA player who became a basketball executive and now leads the Phoenix Suns’ front office.
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D.
James Jones
James Jones is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor.
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E.
William A. Shea
William A. Shea was an American lawyer and civic leader best known for spearheading the return of National League baseball to New York City, leading to the founding of the New York Mets and the naming of Shea Stadium in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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 C. Sheehan Description of subject: John C. Sheehan was an American organic chemist best known for achieving the first complete laboratory synthesis of penicillin.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.