John Kagi
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John Kagi was the father of American abolitionist John Henry Kagi, who served as a key lieutenant to John Brown during the Harpers Ferry raid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Kagi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11429662 — 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 Kagi Context triple: [John Henry Kagi, parent, John Kagi]
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A.
Will Knaak
Will Knaak is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the alternative rock band Blue October.
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B.
Michael Grunst
Michael Grunst is a German local politician who serves as the borough mayor of Berlin’s Lichtenberg district.
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C.
Jon Oberheide
Jon Oberheide is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and researcher best known as the co-founder and former CTO of Duo Security, a leading multi-factor authentication and zero-trust security company.
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D.
Chris Dreja
Chris Dreja is an English musician and photographer best known as the rhythm guitarist and longtime member of the influential 1960s rock band The Yardbirds.
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E.
Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski is an American programmer and early Netscape and Mozilla developer known for his influential role in the early web browser wars and open-source software movement.
- 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 Kagi Target entity description: John Kagi was the father of American abolitionist John Henry Kagi, who served as a key lieutenant to John Brown during the Harpers Ferry raid.
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A.
Will Knaak
Will Knaak is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a member of the alternative rock band Blue October.
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B.
Michael Grunst
Michael Grunst is a German local politician who serves as the borough mayor of Berlin’s Lichtenberg district.
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C.
Jon Oberheide
Jon Oberheide is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and researcher best known as the co-founder and former CTO of Duo Security, a leading multi-factor authentication and zero-trust security company.
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D.
Chris Dreja
Chris Dreja is an English musician and photographer best known as the rhythm guitarist and longtime member of the influential 1960s rock band The Yardbirds.
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E.
Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski is an American programmer and early Netscape and Mozilla developer known for his influential role in the early web browser wars and open-source software movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abolitionist
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abolitionist ⓘ father ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| hasChild | John Henry Kagi ⓘ |
| hasFather | John Kagi ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
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linked to:
John Brown’s raid of 1859
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry ⓘ
linked to:
John Brown’s raid of 1859
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| notableRelative | John Henry Kagi ⓘ |
| notableWork | abolitionist activities against slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lieutenant to John Brown at Harpers Ferry ⓘ |
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 Kagi Description of subject: John Kagi was the father of American abolitionist John Henry Kagi, who served as a key lieutenant to John Brown during the Harpers Ferry raid.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.