Thomas Cavalier-Smith
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Thomas Cavalier-Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and taxonomist known for his influential and often controversial revisions of the tree of life, including the proposal of several high-level groups of organisms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Cavalier-Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13409676 — 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: Thomas Cavalier-Smith Context triple: [Chromista, proposedBy, Thomas Cavalier-Smith]
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A.
Richard H. Truly
Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
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B.
R. H. Whittaker
R. H. Whittaker was an American ecologist best known for proposing the five-kingdom classification system of life, which significantly reshaped modern biological taxonomy.
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C.
Peter H. Raven
Peter H. Raven is an influential American botanist and environmentalist renowned for his work in plant systematics, biodiversity conservation, and leadership of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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D.
Geoffrey Simpson
Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
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E.
Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck was a German poet, writer, and psychoanalyst who was a leading founding member and theorist of the Dada movement in Zurich and Berlin.
- 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: Thomas Cavalier-Smith Target entity description: Thomas Cavalier-Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and taxonomist known for his influential and often controversial revisions of the tree of life, including the proposal of several high-level groups of organisms.
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A.
Richard H. Truly
Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
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B.
R. H. Whittaker
R. H. Whittaker was an American ecologist best known for proposing the five-kingdom classification system of life, which significantly reshaped modern biological taxonomy.
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C.
Peter H. Raven
Peter H. Raven is an influential American botanist and environmentalist renowned for his work in plant systematics, biodiversity conservation, and leadership of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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D.
Geoffrey Simpson
Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
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E.
Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck was a German poet, writer, and psychoanalyst who was a leading founding member and theorist of the Dada movement in Zurich and Berlin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
evolutionary biologist
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human ⓘ taxonomist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Fellow of the Royal Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| employer |
King's College London
NERFINISHED
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University of British Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Cavalier-Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biological systematics
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evolutionary biology ⓘ microbial taxonomy ⓘ phylogenetics ⓘ protistology ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
high-level taxonomy of eukaryotes
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modern protist classification ⓘ |
| knownFor |
classification of eukaryotes
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controversial taxonomic hypotheses ⓘ proposals of high-level taxa ⓘ revisions of the tree of life ⓘ work on protist phylogeny ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Cavalier-Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
papers on early evolution of eukaryotic cells
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papers on origin of eukaryotic flagella ⓘ papers on origin of plastids ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| positionHeld |
Professor of Botany
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology ⓘ |
| proposedConcept |
eight-kingdom classification of life
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kingdom Archezoa NERFINISHED ⓘ kingdom Chromista NERFINISHED ⓘ kingdom Protozoa (redefined) NERFINISHED ⓘ revised six-kingdom classification ⓘ supergroup Excavata ⓘ superkingdom Bacteria (reinterpreted) ⓘ superkingdom Neomura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Oxford
NERFINISHED
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Vancouver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Thomas Cavalier-Smith Description of subject: Thomas Cavalier-Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and taxonomist known for his influential and often controversial revisions of the tree of life, including the proposal of several high-level groups of organisms.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.