Gordon S. Wood
E126486
Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gordon S. Wood canonical | 6 |
| Daniel Walker Howe | 1 |
| Edmund S. Morgan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1033563 — 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: Gordon S. Wood Context triple: [Pulitzer Prize for History, notableWinner, Gordon S. Wood]
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A.
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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B.
Peter Gay
Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
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C.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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D.
Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman was a 19th-century American historian best known for his multi-volume works on the French and British struggle for control of North America, including "France and England in North America."
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E.
Thomas J. R. Hughes
Thomas J. R. Hughes is a prominent American applied mathematician and engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
- 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: Gordon S. Wood Target entity description: Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
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A.
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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B.
Peter Gay
Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
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C.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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D.
Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman was a 19th-century American historian best known for his multi-volume works on the French and British struggle for control of North America, including "France and England in North America."
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E.
Thomas J. R. Hughes
Thomas J. R. Hughes is a prominent American applied mathematician and engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Gordon S. Wood Description of subject: Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edmund S. Morgan
this entity surface form:
Daniel Walker Howe