David Dodd
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David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Dodd canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T638847 — 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: David Dodd Context triple: [Benjamin Graham, coAuthorWith, David Dodd]
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John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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B.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Charles F. Roos
Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
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D.
Edward L. McDonnell
Edward L. McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers, including the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sicario."
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E.
John D. Nichols
John D. Nichols is a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to the arts and culture sector led to major landmarks being named in his honor.
- 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: David Dodd Target entity description: David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
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A.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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B.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown was a sports team owner best known for owning the New Jersey Americans basketball franchise, a precursor to the Brooklyn Nets in the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Charles F. Roos
Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
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D.
Edward L. McDonnell
Edward L. McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers, including the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sicario."
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E.
John D. Nichols
John D. Nichols is a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to the arts and culture sector led to major landmarks being named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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author ⓘ book ⓘ economist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| affiliation | Columbia Business School ⓘ |
| author |
Benjamin Graham
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David Dodd self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Benjamin Graham
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David Dodd self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Business School
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Columbia University ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia Business School
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Columbia University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
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investment analysis ⓘ value investing ⓘ |
| genre |
finance literature
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investment literature ⓘ |
| influenced | value investing movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Benjamin Graham ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
security analysis
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value investing ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-authoring "Security Analysis" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Security Analysis ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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economist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at Columbia Business School ⓘ |
| 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: David Dodd Description of subject: David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Benjamin Graham
subject surface form:
Security Analysis
subject surface form:
Benjamin Graham
Warren Buffett’s 1984 essay "The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville"
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basedOnIdeasOf
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David Dodd
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subject surface form:
The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville