Mike Davis
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Mike Davis was an American Marxist urban theorist, historian, and writer best known for his incisive analyses of cities, capitalism, and environmental catastrophe.
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| Mike Davis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Davis Context triple: [Verso Books, notableAuthorPublished, Mike Davis]
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Mike Davis
Mike Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for succeeding Bob Knight at Indiana University and leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 NCAA championship game.
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Michael Baca
Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
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C.
Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero is an American abstract sculptor renowned for his monumental, industrial steel constructions installed in prominent outdoor sculpture parks and public spaces worldwide.
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D.
Philip Cook
Philip Cook was a 19th-century American politician and Confederate officer from Georgia who served in the U.S. Congress and later as Georgia’s Secretary of State.
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E.
Howard Shoup
Howard Shoup was an American costume designer known for his prolific work in Hollywood films from the 1940s through the 1960s and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Davis Target entity description: Mike Davis was an American Marxist urban theorist, historian, and writer best known for his incisive analyses of cities, capitalism, and environmental catastrophe.
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A.
Mike Davis
Mike Davis is an American college basketball coach best known for succeeding Bob Knight at Indiana University and leading the Hoosiers to the 2002 NCAA championship game.
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B.
Michael Baca
Michael Baca is an American presidential elector known for his role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Colorado Department of State v. Baca, which addressed whether states can penalize or replace “faithless electors” in the Electoral College.
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C.
Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero is an American abstract sculptor renowned for his monumental, industrial steel constructions installed in prominent outdoor sculpture parks and public spaces worldwide.
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D.
Philip Cook
Philip Cook was a 19th-century American politician and Confederate officer from Georgia who served in the U.S. Congress and later as Georgia’s Secretary of State.
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E.
Howard Shoup
Howard Shoup was an American costume designer known for his prolific work in Hollywood films from the 1940s through the 1960s and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Marxist intellectual
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human ⓘ urban theorist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
NERFINISHED
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MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | esophageal cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-03-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-10-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Reed College
NERFINISHED
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| employer |
California Institute of the Arts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of California, Irvine NERFINISHED ⓘ University of California, Riverside NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
environmental history
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political economy ⓘ social history ⓘ urban studies ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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political writing ⓘ urban studies literature ⓘ |
| movement | Marxism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
critical analysis of Los Angeles as a paradigmatic neoliberal city
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linking urbanization, global capitalism, and environmental catastrophe ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
NERFINISHED
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead Cities, and Other Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ In Praise of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World NERFINISHED ⓘ Planet of Slums NERFINISHED ⓘ Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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essayist ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fontana, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Diego, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | left-wing ⓘ |
| residence | San Diego, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alison Pearlman
NERFINISHED
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Kelly Candaele NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalia Ana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
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