Ralph Ginzburg
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Ralph Ginzburg was an American publisher, editor, and writer known for his provocative magazines and for being at the center of landmark U.S. obscenity and free speech court cases in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ralph Ginzburg canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5879129 — 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: Ralph Ginzburg Context triple: [opinion in Ginzburg v. United States, party, Ralph Ginzburg]
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A.
Murray Feshbach
Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
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B.
Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell was an American theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to quantum field theory and particle physics, as well as for his influential work in national security and arms control policy.
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C.
Leo Kadanoff
Leo Kadanoff was an influential American physicist renowned for his pioneering work on phase transitions and the renormalization group, which helped lay the foundations of modern statistical physics and condensed matter theory.
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D.
Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in neutrino physics, including the first direct detection of the muon neutrino.
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E.
Sheldon Kahn
Sheldon Kahn was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including major studio comedies and dramas.
- 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: Ralph Ginzburg Target entity description: Ralph Ginzburg was an American publisher, editor, and writer known for his provocative magazines and for being at the center of landmark U.S. obscenity and free speech court cases in the 1960s.
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A.
Murray Feshbach
Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
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B.
Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell was an American theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to quantum field theory and particle physics, as well as for his influential work in national security and arms control policy.
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C.
Leo Kadanoff
Leo Kadanoff was an influential American physicist renowned for his pioneering work on phase transitions and the renormalization group, which helped lay the foundations of modern statistical physics and condensed matter theory.
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D.
Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in neutrino physics, including the first direct detection of the muon neutrino.
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E.
Sheldon Kahn
Sheldon Kahn was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including major studio comedies and dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editor
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human ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | multiple myeloma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-10-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-07-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brooklyn College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
City College of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Avant Garde Magazine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eros Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ Fact Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
erotica
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| genre |
erotica
ⓘ
investigative journalism ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Eli Ginzburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Ginzburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Mickey Ginzburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | free speech movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCourtCase | Ginzburg v. United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
landmark U.S. obscenity cases in the 1960s
ⓘ
provocative magazines ⓘ |
| notableWork |
100 Years of Lynchings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
An Unhurried View of Erotica NERFINISHED ⓘ Avant Garde NERFINISHED ⓘ Eros NERFINISHED ⓘ Fact ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | liberal ⓘ |
| residence |
Manhattan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
U.S. Supreme Court decision in Ginzburg v. United States (1966)
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conviction for violating U.S. federal obscenity laws ⓘ |
| spouse | Shoshana Ginzburg 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: Ralph Ginzburg Description of subject: Ralph Ginzburg was an American publisher, editor, and writer known for his provocative magazines and for being at the center of landmark U.S. obscenity and free speech court cases in the 1960s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.