Thomas Johnson (D.C. judge)
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Thomas Johnson was a notable judge who served on the early Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, contributing to the development of the federal judiciary in Washington, D.C.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Johnson (D.C. judge) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6010849 — 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: Thomas Johnson (D.C. judge) Context triple: [Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, hasNotableJudge, Thomas Johnson (D.C. judge)]
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A.
James A. Thomas
James A. Thomas was a prominent American tobacco executive associated with the American Tobacco Company and Duke University.
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B.
Thomas Johnson Jr.
Thomas Johnson Jr. was an American Founding Father who served as the first Governor of Maryland and later as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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C.
John H. Jones
John H. Jones was an individual of sufficient local or historical significance to be recognized as a notable burial at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey.
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D.
Lewis J. Boies
Lewis J. Boies was the third husband of Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
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E.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
- 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: Thomas Johnson (D.C. judge) Target entity description: Thomas Johnson was a notable judge who served on the early Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, contributing to the development of the federal judiciary in Washington, D.C.
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A.
James A. Thomas
James A. Thomas was a prominent American tobacco executive associated with the American Tobacco Company and Duke University.
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B.
Thomas Johnson Jr.
Thomas Johnson Jr. was an American Founding Father who served as the first Governor of Maryland and later as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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C.
John H. Jones
John H. Jones was an individual of sufficient local or historical significance to be recognized as a notable burial at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey.
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D.
Lewis J. Boies
Lewis J. Boies was the third husband of Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr.
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E.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
judge
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Circuit Court of the District of Columbia ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
federal judiciary
ⓘ
law ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to the development of the federal judiciary in Washington, D.C.
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service on the early Circuit Court of the District of Columbia ⓘ |
| occupation | judge ⓘ |
| positionHeld | judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Thomas Johnson (D.C. judge) Description of subject: Thomas Johnson was a notable judge who served on the early Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, contributing to the development of the federal judiciary in Washington, D.C.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Circuit Court of the District of Columbia (historical)