Thomas J. Biersteker
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Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas J. Biersteker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T57369 — 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: Thomas J. Biersteker Context triple: [Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy, author, Thomas J. Biersteker]
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A.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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B.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
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C.
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
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D.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
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E.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
- 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: Thomas J. Biersteker Target entity description: Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
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A.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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B.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
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C.
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
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D.
Michael H. Moloney
Michael H. Moloney is a physics-focused science policy and leadership professional who serves as the chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics.
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E.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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international relations scholar ⓘ person ⓘ political scientist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (historical origin)
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surface form:
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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| fieldOfWork |
constructivist international relations theory
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global economic governance ⓘ global governance ⓘ international organizations ⓘ international relations ⓘ international sanctions ⓘ international security ⓘ political science ⓘ state sovereignty ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
global governance studies
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international political economy ⓘ security studies ⓘ |
| hasAcademicInterest |
UN Security Council sanctions
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evolution of state sovereignty ⓘ global security governance ⓘ multilateral sanctions regimes ⓘ role of non-state actors in global governance ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
author
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professor ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| hasRole |
director of a program on global governance
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director of a program on sanctions and international security ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
analysis of the effectiveness of sanctions
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contributions to debates on global governance ⓘ expertise on United Nations sanctions ⓘ scholarship on international security policy ⓘ |
| isPartOf | American political science community ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on global governance
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research on international security ⓘ research on targeted sanctions ⓘ work on the transformation of state sovereignty ⓘ |
| notableWork |
publications on global governance
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publications on international security ⓘ publications on targeted sanctions ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Geneva
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Switzerland ⓘ |
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: Thomas J. Biersteker Description of subject: Thomas J. Biersteker is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his work on global governance, sanctions, and international security.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.