James Wormley Jones
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James Wormley Jones was an African American law enforcement officer best known as the first Black special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Wormley Jones canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6216201 — 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: James Wormley Jones Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.), hasBurial, James Wormley Jones]
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A.
Samuel Goode Jones
Samuel Goode Jones was a prominent local figure in Georgia whose legacy is commemorated by having the city of Jonesboro named in his honor.
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B.
William Atkinson Jones
William Atkinson Jones was a U.S. Congressman from Virginia best known for sponsoring landmark legislation on American territorial policy, including measures affecting Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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C.
Thomas Hudson Jones
Thomas Hudson Jones was an American sculptor best known for his military monuments and memorials created in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Joseph MacMillan Johnson
Joseph MacMillan Johnson was a Hollywood art director and production designer best known for his work on classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rear Window."
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E.
Horace Albert McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
- 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: James Wormley Jones Target entity description: James Wormley Jones was an African American law enforcement officer best known as the first Black special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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A.
Samuel Goode Jones
Samuel Goode Jones was a prominent local figure in Georgia whose legacy is commemorated by having the city of Jonesboro named in his honor.
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B.
William Atkinson Jones
William Atkinson Jones was a U.S. Congressman from Virginia best known for sponsoring landmark legislation on American territorial policy, including measures affecting Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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C.
Thomas Hudson Jones
Thomas Hudson Jones was an American sculptor best known for his military monuments and memorials created in the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Joseph MacMillan Johnson
Joseph MacMillan Johnson was a Hollywood art director and production designer best known for his work on classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rear Window."
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E.
Horace Albert McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Federal Bureau of Investigation agent
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human ⓘ law enforcement officer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
historical accounts of African Americans in U.S. federal law enforcement
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scholarship on early FBI personnel diversity ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
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linked to:
Black Americans
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| familyName | Jones ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | law enforcement ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasRole | special agent ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first Black special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| notableWork | service as the first African American FBI special agent ⓘ |
| occupation |
police officer
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special agent ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of African Americans in law enforcement
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history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: James Wormley Jones Description of subject: James Wormley Jones was an African American law enforcement officer best known as the first Black special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.