John Shive
E814895
John Shive was an American mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Grand Teton in Wyoming’s Teton Range.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Shive canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9149507 — 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 Shive Context triple: [Grand Teton, firstAscentBy, John Shive]
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A.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
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B.
Edward Leede
Edward Leede was a notable Dartmouth College basketball player and benefactor after whom Dartmouth’s Leede Arena is named.
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C.
Willis Davidge
Willis Davidge is a human starfighter pilot and central character in the science fiction film "Enemy Mine," known for forming an unlikely friendship with an alien named Jeriba Shigan after they are stranded together on a hostile planet.
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D.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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E.
William Scheves
William Scheves was a 15th-century Scottish churchman who became Archbishop of St Andrews and a prominent figure in the late medieval Scottish Church.
- 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 Shive Target entity description: John Shive was an American mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Grand Teton in Wyoming’s Teton Range.
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A.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
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B.
Edward Leede
Edward Leede was a notable Dartmouth College basketball player and benefactor after whom Dartmouth’s Leede Arena is named.
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C.
Willis Davidge
Willis Davidge is a human starfighter pilot and central character in the science fiction film "Enemy Mine," known for forming an unlikely friendship with an alien named Jeriba Shigan after they are stranded together on a hostile planet.
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D.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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E.
William Scheves
William Scheves was a 15th-century Scottish churchman who became Archbishop of St Andrews and a prominent figure in the late medieval Scottish Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mountain ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ |
| activityRegion |
Teton Range
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Wyoming ⓘ |
| climbed |
Grand Teton
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Teton peak
|
| fieldOfActivity | mountaineering ⓘ |
| knownFor | participating in the first recorded ascent of Grand Teton ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Teton Range
ⓘ
Wyoming ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | first recorded ascent of Grand Teton ⓘ |
| occupation | mountaineer ⓘ |
| participantIn | first recorded ascent of Grand Teton ⓘ |
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 Shive Description of subject: John Shive was an American mountaineer known for participating in the first recorded ascent of Grand Teton in Wyoming’s Teton Range.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Grand Teton peak