Glenn D. Lowry
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Glenn D. Lowry is an American art historian and museum director best known for leading New York’s Museum of Modern Art through major expansions and modernization initiatives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Glenn D. Lowry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T37982 — 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: Glenn D. Lowry Context triple: [Museum of Modern Art, director, Glenn D. Lowry]
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A.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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B.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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C.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
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D.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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E.
James L. Flanagan
James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.
- 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: Glenn D. Lowry Target entity description: Glenn D. Lowry is an American art historian and museum director best known for leading New York’s Museum of Modern Art through major expansions and modernization initiatives.
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A.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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B.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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C.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
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D.
Harold T. Shapiro
Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
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E.
James L. Flanagan
James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art historian
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human ⓘ museum director ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree
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PhD in art history ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Williams College ⓘ |
| employer | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| familyName | Lowry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
modern art
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museum studies ⓘ |
| genre | art history ⓘ |
| givenName | Glenn ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing the Museum of Modern Art
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modernization initiatives at the Museum of Modern Art ⓘ overseeing major expansions of the Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American art historians
ⓘ
American museum directors ⓘ |
| name | Glenn D. Lowry self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership of the Museum of Modern Art expansion projects
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modernization of the Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| occupation |
art historian
ⓘ
museum director ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of the Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Glenn D. Lowry Description of subject: Glenn D. Lowry is an American art historian and museum director best known for leading New York’s Museum of Modern Art through major expansions and modernization initiatives.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.