David Perlmutter
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David Perlmutter is an American linguist known for his influential work in generative grammar and for co-developing Relational Grammar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Perlmutter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9182974 — 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: David Perlmutter Context triple: [Pamela Munro, academicAdvisor, David Perlmutter]
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A.
John McDougall
John McDougall is the child of Alexander McDougall, likely known in relation to his parent’s family or historical background.
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B.
Jonathan Tunick
Jonathan Tunick is a renowned American orchestrator, musical director, and composer best known for his long-standing collaboration with Stephen Sondheim on numerous Broadway productions.
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C.
Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley is a British aristocrat and writer, known as the son of socialite Diana Mitford and politician Sir Oswald Mosley.
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D.
Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Seven Seconds," "Ozark," and "Scrubs."
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E.
Tom Wallach
Tom Wallach is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Wallach surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
- 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: David Perlmutter Target entity description: David Perlmutter is an American linguist known for his influential work in generative grammar and for co-developing Relational Grammar.
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A.
John McDougall
John McDougall is the child of Alexander McDougall, likely known in relation to his parent’s family or historical background.
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B.
Jonathan Tunick
Jonathan Tunick is a renowned American orchestrator, musical director, and composer best known for his long-standing collaboration with Stephen Sondheim on numerous Broadway productions.
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C.
Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Seven Seconds," "Ozark," and "Scrubs."
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D.
Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley is a British aristocrat and writer, known as the son of socialite Diana Mitford and politician Sir Oswald Mosley.
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E.
Tom Wallach
Tom Wallach is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Wallach surname, though detailed public information about his life or achievements is limited.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguist
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
linguistics
ⓘ
theoretical linguistics ⓘ |
| coDeveloper | David Perlmutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDeveloperOf | Relational Grammar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Perlmutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Relational Grammar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
generative grammar ⓘ linguistics ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicSpecialty |
grammatical relations
ⓘ
morphosyntax ⓘ syntactic theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-developing Relational Grammar
ⓘ
theory of Relational Grammar ⓘ work in generative grammar ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | generative linguistics ⓘ |
| name | David Perlmutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of Relational Grammar framework ⓘ |
| occupation |
linguist
ⓘ
university professor ⓘ |
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: David Perlmutter Description of subject: David Perlmutter is an American linguist known for his influential work in generative grammar and for co-developing Relational Grammar.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.