Michael Tanner
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Michael Tanner is a British philosopher and scholar, particularly known for his work on aesthetics and opera, who supervised Roger Scruton’s doctoral studies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Tanner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2927444 — 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: Michael Tanner Context triple: [Roger Scruton, doctoralAdvisor, Michael Tanner]
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A.
Michael Athans
Michael Athans was a prominent control theorist and MIT professor known for his pioneering contributions to modern control theory and systems engineering.
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B.
Christian Ross
Christian Ross was the wife of Scottish poet Allan Ramsay, known primarily through her connection to the influential 18th-century literary figure.
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C.
W. Blake Herron
W. Blake Herron was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit espionage thriller film "The Bourne Identity."
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D.
Christopher Ross
Christopher Ross is a British cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on films such as "Yesterday" and other contemporary feature productions.
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E.
Joshua Russaw
Joshua Russaw is the son of American R&B singer Faith Evans and her former husband, music producer Todd Russaw.
- 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: Michael Tanner Target entity description: Michael Tanner is a British philosopher and scholar, particularly known for his work on aesthetics and opera, who supervised Roger Scruton’s doctoral studies.
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A.
Michael Athans
Michael Athans was a prominent control theorist and MIT professor known for his pioneering contributions to modern control theory and systems engineering.
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B.
Christian Ross
Christian Ross was the wife of Scottish poet Allan Ramsay, known primarily through her connection to the influential 18th-century literary figure.
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C.
W. Blake Herron
W. Blake Herron was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the hit espionage thriller film "The Bourne Identity."
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D.
Christopher Ross
Christopher Ross is a British cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on films such as "Yesterday" and other contemporary feature productions.
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E.
Joshua Russaw
Joshua Russaw is the son of American R&B singer Faith Evans and her former husband, music producer Todd Russaw.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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academic ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aesthetics
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opera ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
work on aesthetics
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work on opera ⓘ |
| nationality | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Roger Scruton ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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scholar ⓘ |
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: Michael Tanner Description of subject: Michael Tanner is a British philosopher and scholar, particularly known for his work on aesthetics and opera, who supervised Roger Scruton’s doctoral studies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.