Henry Johnson
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Henry Johnson was a British Army officer who commanded forces during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Stony Point.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3810511 — 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: Henry Johnson Context triple: [Battle of Stony Point, commander, Henry Johnson]
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A.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was the early settler and railroad station agent whose land and efforts led to the founding of the community that became Johnson City, Tennessee.
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B.
Eugene Williams
Eugene Williams was a Black teenager whose death after being attacked for drifting into a whites-only area of Lake Michigan helped ignite the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
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C.
Henry Chandlee Turner
Henry Chandlee Turner was an American builder and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the major construction firm Turner Construction Company.
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D.
Henry Blanke
Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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E.
Henry Wilberforce
Henry Wilberforce was a 19th-century English journalist and prominent Roman Catholic convert known for his religious writings and advocacy.
- 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: Henry Johnson Target entity description: Henry Johnson was a British Army officer who commanded forces during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Stony Point.
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A.
Henry Johnson
Henry Johnson was the early settler and railroad station agent whose land and efforts led to the founding of the community that became Johnson City, Tennessee.
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B.
Eugene Williams
Eugene Williams was a Black teenager whose death after being attacked for drifting into a whites-only area of Lake Michigan helped ignite the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
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C.
Henry Chandlee Turner
Henry Chandlee Turner was an American builder and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the major construction firm Turner Construction Company.
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D.
Henry Blanke
Henry Blanke was a prominent German-born American film producer best known for his long association with Warner Bros. and his work on numerous classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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E.
Henry Wilberforce
Henry Wilberforce was a 19th-century English journalist and prominent Roman Catholic convert known for his religious writings and advocacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military leadership ⓘ |
| genre | 18th-century military history ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Henry ⓘ |
| hasRole |
battlefield commander
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garrison commander ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance |
King George III
ⓘ
linked to:
George III of the United Kingdom
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| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| movement | British military operations in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableEvent | defeat at the Battle of Stony Point ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding British garrison at Stony Point ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of British forces at the Battle of Stony Point ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
Battle of Stony Point ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
North America
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Thirteen Colonies ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Great Britain ⓘ |
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: Henry Johnson Description of subject: Henry Johnson was a British Army officer who commanded forces during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Stony Point.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.