Timothy Leary
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Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Timothy Leary canonical | 38 |
| Leary | 1 |
| Richard Alpert | 1 |
| Timothy Francis Leary | 1 |
| Timothy Leary bibliography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T258976 — 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: Timothy Leary Context triple: [Timothy, hasNotableBearer, Timothy Leary]
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A.
Ralph Leighton
Ralph Leighton is an American author and longtime friend of physicist Richard Feynman, known for co-authoring books such as "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?".
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B.
William Flynt Nichols
William Flynt Nichols was a U.S. Congressman from Alabama who co-sponsored the landmark Goldwater–Nichols Act that restructured the Department of Defense and modernized American military command.
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C.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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D.
John Schulman
John Schulman is an AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenAI and a key contributor to advances in deep reinforcement learning and large language models.
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E.
Herb Armstrong
Herb Armstrong is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Armstrong surname, though specific widely known public details about his life or achievements are not clearly documented.
- 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: Timothy Leary Target entity description: Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
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A.
Ralph Leighton
Ralph Leighton is an American author and longtime friend of physicist Richard Feynman, known for co-authoring books such as "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?".
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B.
William Flynt Nichols
William Flynt Nichols was a U.S. Congressman from Alabama who co-sponsored the landmark Goldwater–Nichols Act that restructured the Department of Defense and modernized American military command.
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C.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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D.
John Schulman
John Schulman is an AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of OpenAI and a key contributor to advances in deep reinforcement learning and large language models.
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E.
Herb Armstrong
Herb Armstrong is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Armstrong surname, though specific widely known public details about his life or achievements are not clearly documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Timothy Leary Description of subject: Timothy Leary was an American psychologist and writer best known for advocating the therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s counterculture movement.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Timothy Francis Leary
this entity surface form:
Leary
this entity surface form:
Richard Alpert
this entity surface form:
Timothy Leary bibliography
subject surface form:
"Turn on, tune in, drop out"
subject surface form:
"Turn on, tune in, drop out"
subject surface form:
"Turn on, tune in, drop out"