Carlo Ginzburg
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Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian renowned for pioneering microhistory and for influential works such as "The Cheese and the Worms," which explore the mentalities and cultures of early modern Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carlo Ginzburg canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3614770 — 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: Carlo Ginzburg Context triple: [American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction, notableRecipient, Carlo Ginzburg]
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A.
Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski was a prominent Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and physician known for his influential studies of Enlightenment thought and the history of melancholy.
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B.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British historian and scholar renowned for his influential research on Western esotericism, occultism, and their intersections with modern political ideologies.
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C.
Guido Crosetto
Guido Crosetto is an Italian politician and businessman, co-founder of the national-conservative party Brothers of Italy and a prominent figure on the Italian right.
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D.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, philosopher, semiotician, and scholar best known for his erudite historical mystery "The Name of the Rose."
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E.
I. Bernard Cohen
I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
- 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: Carlo Ginzburg Target entity description: Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian renowned for pioneering microhistory and for influential works such as "The Cheese and the Worms," which explore the mentalities and cultures of early modern Europe.
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A.
Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski was a prominent Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and physician known for his influential studies of Enlightenment thought and the history of melancholy.
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B.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British historian and scholar renowned for his influential research on Western esotericism, occultism, and their intersections with modern political ideologies.
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C.
Guido Crosetto
Guido Crosetto is an Italian politician and businessman, co-founder of the national-conservative party Brothers of Italy and a prominent figure on the Italian right.
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D.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, philosopher, semiotician, and scholar best known for his erudite historical mystery "The Name of the Rose."
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E.
I. Bernard Cohen
I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Carlo Ginzburg Description of subject: Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian renowned for pioneering microhistory and for influential works such as "The Cheese and the Worms," which explore the mentalities and cultures of early modern Europe.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction
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notableRecipient
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Carlo Ginzburg
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