John Marshall Lang
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John Marshall Lang was a prominent 19th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and church leader.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Marshall Lang canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8896913 — 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 Marshall Lang Context triple: [Cosmo Gordon Lang, father, John Marshall Lang]
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A.
John Marshall Alexander Jr.
John Marshall Alexander Jr. was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist better known by his stage name Johnny Ace, popular in the early 1950s.
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B.
Justice Stephen Norrish
Justice Stephen Norrish is an Australian jurist who has served as a judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
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C.
John Jay Shipherd
John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
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D.
David J. Brewer
David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
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E.
Daniel Cady
Daniel Cady was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York, best known today as the father of women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- 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 Marshall Lang Target entity description: John Marshall Lang was a prominent 19th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and church leader.
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A.
John Marshall Alexander Jr.
John Marshall Alexander Jr. was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist better known by his stage name Johnny Ace, popular in the early 1950s.
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B.
Justice Stephen Norrish
Justice Stephen Norrish is an Australian jurist who has served as a judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
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C.
John Jay Shipherd
John Jay Shipherd was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and educational reformer best known for co-founding Oberlin College and promoting progressive ideals such as coeducation and abolitionism.
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D.
David J. Brewer
David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
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E.
Daniel Cady
Daniel Cady was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer, judge, and politician from New York, best known today as the father of women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian clergy
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Scottish Presbyterian minister ⓘ church leader ⓘ human ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Presbyterian church governance
ⓘ
Scottish religious life ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| clergyType | Presbyterian minister ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
church leadership
ⓘ
pastoral ministry ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Doctor of Divinity
ⓘ
Reverend ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| movement |
Reformed Christianity
ⓘ
linked to:
Reformed churches
|
| notableFor |
influence in 19th-century Scottish Presbyterianism
ⓘ
leadership in the Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| occupation |
church administrator
ⓘ
minister ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Scotland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Presbyterianism ⓘ
linked to:
Presbyterian
|
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 Marshall Lang Description of subject: John Marshall Lang was a prominent 19th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and church leader.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.