Abbie Hoffman
E452238
Abbie Hoffman was a prominent American social and political activist of the 1960s, co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), and a leading figure in the counterculture and anti–Vietnam War movements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abbie Hoffman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4559551 — 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: Abbie Hoffman Context triple: [The Trial of the Chicago 7, mainCharacter, Abbie Hoffman]
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Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Hennacy was an American Christian anarchist, pacifist, and social activist known for his tax resistance, anti-war protests, and involvement with the Catholic Worker Movement.
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B.
Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders is an English actor and singer best known for his role as Toby in Tim Burton’s 2007 film adaptation of the musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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C.
Robert Bronner
Robert Bronner was a cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the musical "Silk Stockings."
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D.
Mario Savio
Mario Savio was a prominent American political activist best known as a leading voice and orator of the 1960s student protest movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
Jerry Rubin
Jerry Rubin was a prominent American social activist and counterculture figure of the 1960s, best known as a co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and for his role in anti–Vietnam War protests.
- 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: Abbie Hoffman Target entity description: Abbie Hoffman was a prominent American social and political activist of the 1960s, co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), and a leading figure in the counterculture and anti–Vietnam War movements.
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A.
Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Hennacy was an American Christian anarchist, pacifist, and social activist known for his tax resistance, anti-war protests, and involvement with the Catholic Worker Movement.
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B.
Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders is an English actor and singer best known for his role as Toby in Tim Burton’s 2007 film adaptation of the musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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C.
Robert Bronner
Robert Bronner was a cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the musical "Silk Stockings."
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D.
Mario Savio
Mario Savio was a prominent American political activist best known as a leading voice and orator of the 1960s student protest movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
Jerry Rubin
Jerry Rubin was a prominent American social activist and counterculture figure of the 1960s, best known as a co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and for his role in anti–Vietnam War protests.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti–Vietnam War activist
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counterculture figure ⓘ human ⓘ political activist ⓘ social activist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1989 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| child |
Andrew Hoffman
NERFINISHED
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america Hoffman ⓘ |
| coFounded | Youth International Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-11-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-04-12 ⓘ |
| defendantIn | Chicago Seven trial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brandeis University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Worcester Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Abbot Howard Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Abbot ⓘ |
| knownFor |
anti-war activism
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countercultural satire ⓘ theatrical political protests ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | drug overdose ⓘ |
| memberOf | Youth International Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
New Left
NERFINISHED
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anti–Vietnam War movement ⓘ counterculture of the 1960s ⓘ |
| nickname | Abbie Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Levitation of the Pentagon protest, 1967 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Revolution for the Hell of It
NERFINISHED
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Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Steal This Book NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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comedian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Worcester, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology |
anarchism
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left-wing politics ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anita Hoffman
NERFINISHED
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Sheila Karklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | film "Steal This Movie!" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Abbie Hoffman Description of subject: Abbie Hoffman was a prominent American social and political activist of the 1960s, co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), and a leading figure in the counterculture and anti–Vietnam War movements.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chicago 10