Richard Mentor Johnson
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Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Mentor Johnson canonical | 22 |
| Richard M. Johnson | 1 |
| Richard Mentor Johnson failed to secure a majority of electoral votes | 1 |
| bust of Richard Mentor Johnson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T317619 — 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: Richard Mentor Johnson Context triple: [Johnson County, Iowa, namedAfter, Richard Mentor Johnson]
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William G. Marcy
William G. Marcy was an American political figure who served as secretary of California’s 1849 constitutional convention, helping to organize the foundational framework of the state’s government.
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George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
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C.
Quincy Adams
Quincy Adams is a major MBTA rapid transit station in Quincy, Massachusetts, providing park-and-ride access to Boston via the Red Line.
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D.
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton was an influential early 19th-century American politician and governor of New York who championed major infrastructure projects and helped spur the state's economic growth.
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Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Gerry was an American Founding Father, statesman, and fifth vice president of the United States, best known for inspiring the term "gerrymandering" through a controversial redistricting plan he approved as governor of Massachusetts.
- 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: Richard Mentor Johnson Target entity description: Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
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A.
William G. Marcy
William G. Marcy was an American political figure who served as secretary of California’s 1849 constitutional convention, helping to organize the foundational framework of the state’s government.
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B.
George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas was a 19th-century American politician who served as the 11th vice president of the United States under President James K. Polk.
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C.
Quincy Adams
Quincy Adams is a major MBTA rapid transit station in Quincy, Massachusetts, providing park-and-ride access to Boston via the Red Line.
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D.
DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton was an influential early 19th-century American politician and governor of New York who championed major infrastructure projects and helped spur the state's economic growth.
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E.
Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Gerry was an American Founding Father, statesman, and fifth vice president of the United States, best known for inspiring the term "gerrymandering" through a controversial redistricting plan he approved as governor of Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Richard Mentor Johnson Description of subject: Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president of the United States, serving under President Martin Van Buren and known for his controversial personal life and claims of having killed the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in battle.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Johnson County
United States presidential election of 1836
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Richard Mentor Johnson failed to secure a majority of electoral votes
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linked to: Richard Mentor Johnson
subject linked to:
John
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linked to: Richard Mentor Johnson
subject linked to:
Johnson County