Allen C. Guelzo
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Allen C. Guelzo is an American historian and author renowned for his scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
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| Allen C. Guelzo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12747424 — 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: Allen C. Guelzo Context triple: [Lincoln Prize, notableRecipient, Allen C. Guelzo]
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A.
Robert N. Wilentz
Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
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B.
David T. Wilentz
David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
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C.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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D.
Stanley G. Payne
Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
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E.
Kenneth H. Jackson
Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
- 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: Allen C. Guelzo Target entity description: Allen C. Guelzo is an American historian and author renowned for his scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
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A.
Robert N. Wilentz
Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
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B.
David T. Wilentz
David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
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C.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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D.
Stanley G. Payne
Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
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E.
Kenneth H. Jackson
Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American historian
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academic ⓘ author ⓘ historian ⓘ person ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in history ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award
NERFINISHED
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Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Calvin College
NERFINISHED
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer |
Gettysburg College
NERFINISHED
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Princeton University ⓘ |
| familyName | Guelzo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Abraham Lincoln studies
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American history ⓘ Civil War history ⓘ history ⓘ intellectual history ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | historical non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | public intellectual ⓘ |
| hasRole |
commentator on Civil War memory
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lecturer on American history ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Allen C. Guelzo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
scholarship on Abraham Lincoln
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scholarship on the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableSubject |
Abraham Lincoln
NERFINISHED
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American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ Emancipation Proclamation NERFINISHED ⓘ Reconstruction era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
NERFINISHED
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Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction NERFINISHED ⓘ Gettysburg: The Last Invasion NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert E. Lee: A Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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historian ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College
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senior research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
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