Paul Dwight Moody
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Paul Dwight Moody was an American educator and administrator best known for serving as president of Middlebury College in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Dwight Moody canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T978645 — 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: Paul Dwight Moody Context triple: [Dwight L. Moody, child, Paul Dwight Moody]
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A.
John Luther
John Luther is a brilliant but tormented London detective from the British crime drama series "Luther," known for his obsessive pursuit of justice and morally ambiguous methods.
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B.
Michael J. Smith
Michael J. Smith was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L.
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C.
George Reynolds
George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
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D.
Jim Phillips
Jim Phillips is an American college sports executive who serves as the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
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E.
J. Dallas Dort
J. Dallas Dort was an American automobile pioneer and industrialist best known as the co-founder of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, a key precursor to General Motors.
- 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: Paul Dwight Moody Target entity description: Paul Dwight Moody was an American educator and administrator best known for serving as president of Middlebury College in the early 20th century.
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A.
John Luther
John Luther is a brilliant but tormented London detective from the British crime drama series "Luther," known for his obsessive pursuit of justice and morally ambiguous methods.
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B.
Michael J. Smith
Michael J. Smith was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as the pilot on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51-L.
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C.
George Reynolds
George Reynolds was the 19th-century Mormon defendant whose challenge to federal anti-polygamy laws led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reynolds v. United States, which helped define the limits of religious freedom under the First Amendment.
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D.
Jim Phillips
Jim Phillips is an American college sports executive who serves as the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
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E.
J. Dallas Dort
J. Dallas Dort was an American automobile pioneer and industrialist best known as the co-founder of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, a key precursor to General Motors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college president
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | American higher education ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
American educational history
ⓘ
Middlebury College historical records ⓘ |
| employer | Middlebury College ⓘ |
| familyName | Moody ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | higher education ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasRole |
college president
ⓘ
educational leader ⓘ |
| knownAs | President of Middlebury College ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Paul Dwight Moody self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | presidency of Middlebury College ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
ⓘ
educator ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Middlebury, Vermont ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Middlebury College ⓘ |
| workLocation | Middlebury College ⓘ |
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: Paul Dwight Moody Description of subject: Paul Dwight Moody was an American educator and administrator best known for serving as president of Middlebury College in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.