Jeremy Scahill
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Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeremy Scahill canonical | 3 |
| Scahill | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2376165 — 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: Jeremy Scahill Context triple: [Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, notableRecipient, Jeremy Scahill]
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A.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer best known for his investigative reporting on mass surveillance and civil liberties, including publishing Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations.
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B.
Scott Pilger
Scott Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Pilger.
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C.
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt is an American editor, essayist, and critic best known for founding and running the political commentary site TomDispatch, where he writes extensively on U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and empire.
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D.
John Nichols
John Nichols is an American local politician serving as the mayor of College Station, Texas.
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E.
Jason Hart
Jason Hart is a former American professional basketball player who later became a college coach.
- 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: Jeremy Scahill Target entity description: Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
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A.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer best known for his investigative reporting on mass surveillance and civil liberties, including publishing Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations.
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B.
Scott Pilger
Scott Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake of the surname Pilger.
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C.
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt is an American editor, essayist, and critic best known for founding and running the political commentary site TomDispatch, where he writes extensively on U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and empire.
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D.
John Nichols
John Nichols is an American local politician serving as the mayor of College Station, Texas.
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E.
Jason Hart
Jason Hart is a former American professional basketball player who later became a college coach.
- 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: Jeremy Scahill Description of subject: Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author known for his reporting on U.S. foreign policy, private military contractors, and national security issues.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Scahill