John T. Corley
E385018
United States Army officer
human
military personnel of World War II
military personnel of the Korean War
John T. Corley was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer renowned for his valor and leadership during World War II and the Korean War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John T. Corley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2407135 — 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. Corley Context triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, John T. Corley]
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A.
Willis C. Hawley
Willis C. Hawley was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Oregon best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
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B.
Carl E. Heastie
Carl E. Heastie is an American politician who serves as the Speaker of the New York State Assembly and represents a district in the Bronx.
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C.
Charles F. Chandler
Charles F. Chandler was a prominent 19th-century American chemist and educator who played a key role in professionalizing chemistry in the United States.
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D.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
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E.
Thomas F. Wilson
Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
- 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. Corley Target entity description: John T. Corley was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer renowned for his valor and leadership during World War II and the Korean War.
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A.
Willis C. Hawley
Willis C. Hawley was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Oregon best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
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B.
Carl E. Heastie
Carl E. Heastie is an American politician who serves as the Speaker of the New York State Assembly and represents a district in the Bronx.
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C.
Charles F. Chandler
Charles F. Chandler was a prominent 19th-century American chemist and educator who played a key role in professionalizing chemistry in the United States.
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D.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
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E.
Thomas F. Wilson
Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor and comedian best known for playing bully Biff Tannen and his relatives across the Back to the Future film trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ military personnel of World War II ⓘ military personnel of the Korean War ⓘ |
| awardReceived | high military decorations ⓘ |
| conflict |
Korean War
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
bravery
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courage under fire ⓘ leadership in combat ⓘ |
| hasRank | officer ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
military leadership
ⓘ
service in the U.S. Army during World War II ⓘ service in the U.S. Army during the Korean War ⓘ valor in combat ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| serviceEntryContext |
Korean War era
ⓘ
World War II era ⓘ |
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. Corley Description of subject: John T. Corley was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer renowned for his valor and leadership during World War II and the Korean War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.