John A. Reed
E836012
John A. Reed is known primarily as the son of Stanley Forman Reed, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John A. Reed canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9975158 — 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 A. Reed Context triple: [Stanley Forman Reed, child, John A. Reed]
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A.
John Purroy Mitchel
John Purroy Mitchel was a reform-minded American politician who served as the 95th mayor of New York City from 1914 to 1917 and was known as the "Boy Mayor" for his youth and progressive agenda.
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B.
Franklin D’Olier Reeve
Franklin D’Olier Reeve was an American poet, critic, translator, and academic, known for his work in Russian literature and for being the father of actor Christopher Reeve.
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C.
William H. Walling
William H. Walling was the father of American labor reformer and socialist activist William English Walling.
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D.
Clark W. Bryan
Clark W. Bryan was an American publisher best known for creating the influential women's magazine Good Housekeeping in the late 19th century.
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E.
William English Walling
William English Walling was an American labor reformer, socialist, and journalist who played a key role in early 20th-century civil rights activism.
- 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 A. Reed Target entity description: John A. Reed is known primarily as the son of Stanley Forman Reed, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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A.
John Purroy Mitchel
John Purroy Mitchel was a reform-minded American politician who served as the 95th mayor of New York City from 1914 to 1917 and was known as the "Boy Mayor" for his youth and progressive agenda.
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B.
Franklin D’Olier Reeve
Franklin D’Olier Reeve was an American poet, critic, translator, and academic, known for his work in Russian literature and for being the father of actor Christopher Reeve.
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C.
William H. Walling
William H. Walling was the father of American labor reformer and socialist activist William English Walling.
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D.
Clark W. Bryan
Clark W. Bryan was an American publisher best known for creating the influential women's magazine Good Housekeeping in the late 19th century.
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E.
William English Walling
William English Walling was an American labor reformer, socialist, and journalist who played a key role in early 20th-century civil rights activism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | John A. Reed ⓘ |
| childOf | Stanley Forman Reed ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the son of Stanley Forman Reed ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
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 A. Reed Description of subject: John A. Reed is known primarily as the son of Stanley Forman Reed, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John A. Reed