Doug Hicks
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Doug Hicks is an American academic and administrator who serves as the president of Davidson College in North Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doug Hicks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1132539 — 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: Doug Hicks Context triple: [Davidson College, president, Doug Hicks]
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A.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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B.
Jim Hines
Jim Hines was an American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist best known for being the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter dash.
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C.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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D.
Jim Kimsey
Jim Kimsey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and the first CEO of the pioneering internet company AOL.
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E.
Matthew Kirk
Matthew Kirk is a notable individual who shares the surname Kirk, recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinguished among others with the same name.
- 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: Doug Hicks Target entity description: Doug Hicks is an American academic and administrator who serves as the president of Davidson College in North Carolina.
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A.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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B.
Jim Hines
Jim Hines was an American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist best known for being the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter dash.
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C.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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D.
Jim Kimsey
Jim Kimsey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and the first CEO of the pioneering internet company AOL.
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E.
Matthew Kirk
Matthew Kirk is a notable individual who shares the surname Kirk, recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinguished among others with the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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college president ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Davidson College
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Duke University ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Davidson College
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Duke University ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
Colgate University
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Davidson College ⓘ Emory University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ethics
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higher education administration ⓘ religion and politics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree
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Master of Divinity ⓘ PhD ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | faculty of Davidson College ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Religion and the Workplace: Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership
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With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
dean of Oxford College of Emory University
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president of Davidson College ⓘ provost of Colgate University ⓘ |
| residence | North Carolina ⓘ |
| workLocation | Davidson, North Carolina ⓘ |
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: Doug Hicks Description of subject: Doug Hicks is an American academic and administrator who serves as the president of Davidson College in North Carolina.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.