Alison Bashford
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Alison Bashford is a prominent Australian historian known for her influential work on global history, environmental history, and the history of science, medicine, and population.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alison Bashford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2778659 — 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: Alison Bashford Context triple: [Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, hasNotableHolder, Alison Bashford]
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A.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Elizabeth Dowdeswell is a Canadian public servant and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations who has served as the 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
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B.
Tania Rodger
Tania Rodger is a New Zealand creative producer and co-founder of the acclaimed special effects and prop design company Weta Workshop, known for its work on major film franchises such as The Lord of the Rings.
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C.
Anne Plotkin
Anne Plotkin is known as the first wife of American actor, director, and writer Harold Ramis.
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D.
Gillian Siddall
Gillian Siddall is a Canadian academic and university administrator who serves as president of Lakehead University.
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E.
Alison Owen
Alison Owen is a British film producer known for acclaimed works such as "Elizabeth," "Shaun of the Dead," and "Saving Mr. Banks."
- 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: Alison Bashford Target entity description: Alison Bashford is a prominent Australian historian known for her influential work on global history, environmental history, and the history of science, medicine, and population.
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A.
Elizabeth Dowdeswell
Elizabeth Dowdeswell is a Canadian public servant and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations who has served as the 29th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
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B.
Tania Rodger
Tania Rodger is a New Zealand creative producer and co-founder of the acclaimed special effects and prop design company Weta Workshop, known for its work on major film franchises such as The Lord of the Rings.
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C.
Anne Plotkin
Anne Plotkin is known as the first wife of American actor, director, and writer Harold Ramis.
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D.
Gillian Siddall
Gillian Siddall is a Canadian academic and university administrator who serves as president of Lakehead University.
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E.
Alison Owen
Alison Owen is a British film producer known for acclaimed works such as "Elizabeth," "Shaun of the Dead," and "Saving Mr. Banks."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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historian ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
history
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history of science and medicine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Sydney ⓘ |
| employer |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
University of New South Wales ⓘ University of Sydney ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
environmental history
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global history ⓘ history of eugenics ⓘ history of medicine ⓘ history of population ⓘ history of quarantine ⓘ history of science ⓘ imperial history ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicSpecialization |
history of colonialism and medicine
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history of population politics ⓘ history of public health ⓘ history of quarantine and border control ⓘ |
| hasRole |
author of scholarly monographs
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editor of academic volumes ⓘ public intellectual on historical issues ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Malthusian population theory
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border control and disease ⓘ colonial public health policies ⓘ environmental limits and population ⓘ global governance of population ⓘ history of global migration controls ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Thomas Malthus
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surface form:
Thomas Robert Malthus
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | global history approach in historiography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to global environmental history
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historical studies of quarantine and borders ⓘ research on the global history of population ⓘ work on the history of eugenics and biopolitics ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth
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Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health ⓘ Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 ⓘ Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine ⓘ Quarantine: Local and Global Histories ⓘ The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of a research centre in history
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Professor of History ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Alison Bashford Description of subject: Alison Bashford is a prominent Australian historian known for her influential work on global history, environmental history, and the history of science, medicine, and population.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge
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hasNotableHolder
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Alison Bashford
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