Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Sullivan is a British-American writer and political commentator known for his influential essays on politics, culture, and religion and for pioneering political blogging.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Andrew Sullivan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4662499 — 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: Andrew Sullivan Context triple: [The New Republic, hasContributor, Andrew Sullivan]
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A.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
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B.
Roger Gage
Roger Gage is a British stage director known for his work in theatre and for having been married to acclaimed actress Joan Plowright.
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C.
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
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D.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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E.
Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur best known as the founder of the online travel booking company Wotif.com.
- 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: Andrew Sullivan Target entity description: Andrew Sullivan is a British-American writer and political commentator known for his influential essays on politics, culture, and religion and for pioneering political blogging.
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A.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
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B.
Roger Gage
Roger Gage is a British stage director known for his work in theatre and for having been married to acclaimed actress Joan Plowright.
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C.
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
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D.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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E.
Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur best known as the founder of the online travel booking company Wotif.com.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
blogger ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ political commentator ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ |
| advocated | legalization of same-sex marriage ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-08-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Magdalen College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
New York magazine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Atlantic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Daily Beast NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Time magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1996 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
political science
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political theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| hostedBlog | The Daily Dish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hostedWebsite | andrewsullivan.com ⓘ |
| ideology |
conservatism
ⓘ
liberal conservatism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
essays on politics, culture, and religion
ⓘ
political blogging ⓘ |
| name | Andrew Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British-American ⓘ |
| notableFor | commentary on same-sex marriage ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival NERFINISHED ⓘ The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dish (blog) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weekly Dish (newsletter) NERFINISHED ⓘ Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
columnist
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editor ⓘ television personality ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| pioneered | political blogging as a professional activity ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | South Godstone, Surrey, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor-in-chief of The New Republic ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| startTime | 1991 ⓘ |
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: Andrew Sullivan Description of subject: Andrew Sullivan is a British-American writer and political commentator known for his influential essays on politics, culture, and religion and for pioneering political blogging.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.