John Kidder
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John Kidder is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and political figure known for his work in technology and agriculture and for being married to Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Kidder canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5740658 — 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 Kidder Context triple: [Elizabeth May, spouse, John Kidder]
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A.
Edward Putnam
Edward Putnam was a member of the influential Putnam family in Salem Village, involved in the social and religious tensions surrounding the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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B.
William Vandivert
William Vandivert was an American photojournalist best known as one of the founding members of the Magnum Photos cooperative.
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C.
Nathaniel Motte
Nathaniel Motte is an American musician, producer, and member of the electronic music duo 3OH!3.
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D.
Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam was an American Revolutionary War officer and surveyor known as the “Father of the Northwest Territory” for his leading role in settling and organizing the Ohio Country.
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E.
John Dighton
John Dighton was a British screenwriter known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, including co-writing the screenplay for "Roman Holiday."
- 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 Kidder Target entity description: John Kidder is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and political figure known for his work in technology and agriculture and for being married to Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
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A.
Edward Putnam
Edward Putnam was a member of the influential Putnam family in Salem Village, involved in the social and religious tensions surrounding the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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B.
William Vandivert
William Vandivert was an American photojournalist best known as one of the founding members of the Magnum Photos cooperative.
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C.
Nathaniel Motte
Nathaniel Motte is an American musician, producer, and member of the electronic music duo 3OH!3.
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D.
Rufus Putnam
Rufus Putnam was an American Revolutionary War officer and surveyor known as the “Father of the Northwest Territory” for his leading role in settling and organizing the Ohio Country.
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E.
John Dighton
John Dighton was a British screenwriter known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, including co-writing the screenplay for "Roman Holiday."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
agriculture
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technology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in Canadian politics
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marriage to Green Party leader Elizabeth May ⓘ work in agriculture ⓘ work in technology ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
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entrepreneur ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Green politics ⓘ |
| residence | Canada ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth May ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | politician ⓘ |
| spousePosition | leader of the Green Party of Canada ⓘ |
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 Kidder Description of subject: John Kidder is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and political figure known for his work in technology and agriculture and for being married to Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.