John Wilkie
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John Wilkie was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play "The School for Scandal."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Wilkie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10452953 — 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 Wilkie Context triple: [The School for Scandal, firstPublisher, John Wilkie]
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A.
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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B.
John Willis
John Willis was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
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C.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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D.
Guy Weadick
Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
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E.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
- 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 Wilkie Target entity description: John Wilkie was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play "The School for Scandal."
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A.
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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B.
John Willis
John Willis was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
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C.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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D.
Guy Weadick
Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
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E.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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publisher ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | book publishing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | publishing the first edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play "The School for Scandal" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished |
"The School for Scandal" (first edition)
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linked to:
The School for Scandal (stage)
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| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfWork |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| residence |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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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 Wilkie Description of subject: John Wilkie was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play "The School for Scandal."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The School for Scandal (stage)