John Taylor
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John Taylor is a central character in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III, serving as a high-ranking cybernetically enhanced operative whose actions drive much of the game's campaign narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Taylor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11529724 — 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)
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Target entity: John Taylor Context triple: [Call of Duty: Black Ops III, hasMainCharacter, John Taylor]
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A.
John Taylor
John Taylor is a former San Francisco 49ers wide receiver best known for catching Joe Montana’s game-winning touchdown pass in Super Bowl XXIII.
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B.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an American statesman from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
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C.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the husband of philosopher and women's rights advocate Harriet Taylor Mill, known primarily in relation to her life and intellectual circle.
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D.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a prominent 19th-century Mormon leader.
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E.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an American politician and political philosopher from Virginia, known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and agrarian republicanism in the early United States.
- 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 Taylor Target entity description: John Taylor is a central character in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III, serving as a high-ranking cybernetically enhanced operative whose actions drive much of the game's campaign narrative.
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A.
John Taylor
John Taylor was the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a prominent 19th-century Mormon leader.
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B.
John Taylor
John Taylor is a former San Francisco 49ers wide receiver best known for catching Joe Montana’s game-winning touchdown pass in Super Bowl XXIII.
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C.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an American statesman from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
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D.
John Taylor
John Taylor was an American politician and political philosopher from Virginia, known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and agrarian republicanism in the early United States.
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E.
John Taylor
John Taylor was a prominent 19th-century Trenton, New Jersey industrialist best known for founding Taylor Provisions Company and creating the iconic regional meat product Taylor ham (pork roll).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
video game character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Winslow Accord ⓘ |
| alignment |
initially loyal to Winslow Accord
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later corrupted by rogue AI influence ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Call of Duty: Black Ops III ⓘ |
| associatedWith | rogue DNI intelligence ⓘ |
| combatStyle | tactical, technologically augmented warfare ⓘ |
| commands |
Diaz
ⓘ
Hall ⓘ Hendrix ⓘ Maretti ⓘ |
| conflictWith | player character in Call of Duty: Black Ops III ⓘ |
| developedBy | Treyarch ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015)
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linked to:
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
|
| franchise | Call of Duty ⓘ |
| gameModeAppearance | campaign ⓘ |
| genre | first-person shooter ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
Direct Neural Interface
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cybernetic enhancements ⓘ enhanced combat capabilities ⓘ remote system hacking via DNI ⓘ |
| hasTheme | questions of autonomy and control under cybernetic augmentation ⓘ |
| medium | video game ⓘ |
| memberOf | cybernetically enhanced black ops unit ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
mentor to the player character (early in the story)
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primary antagonist (later in the story) ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
extensive cybernetic implants
ⓘ
leadership of elite black ops team ⓘ |
| occupation |
black ops operative
ⓘ
cybernetically enhanced soldier ⓘ |
| platform |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
PlayStation 3 ⓘ
linked to:
Sony PlayStation 3
PlayStation 4 ⓘ Xbox 360 ⓘ Xbox One ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Christopher Meloni ⓘ |
| publishedBy |
Activision
ⓘ
linked to:
Activision Blizzard
|
| rank | commander ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character in the campaign ⓘ |
| setting | 2060s ⓘ |
| storyArc | mentor-turned-adversary ⓘ |
| storyFunction | drives much of the game’s campaign narrative ⓘ |
| team | Taylor’s Team ⓘ |
| technologyUsed | Direct Neural Interface (DNI) ⓘ |
| universe |
Black Ops subseries of Call of Duty
ⓘ
linked to:
Call of Duty: Black Ops
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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 Taylor Description of subject: John Taylor is a central character in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III, serving as a high-ranking cybernetically enhanced operative whose actions drive much of the game's campaign narrative.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.