Bing Professor of Population Studies
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Bing Professor of Population Studies is an endowed academic chair at Stanford University held by biologist and population theorist Paul R. Ehrlich.
All labels observed (1)
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| Bing Professor of Population Studies canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T627877 — 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: Bing Professor of Population Studies Context triple: [Paul R. Ehrlich, positionHeld, Bing Professor of Population Studies]
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Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor
The Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor is a prestigious endowed professorship at the University of Chicago, historically associated with eminent scholars such as astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities is a prestigious endowed academic chair in the humanities, notably held by Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel.
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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is a Harvard research center that investigates global population health, demographic change, and social determinants of health to inform policy and improve well-being worldwide.
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Global Development and Population Program
The Global Development and Population Program is a Hewlett Foundation initiative that supports evidence-based policies and organizations working to reduce poverty, improve governance, and advance reproductive health and rights worldwide.
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E.
Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University
The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University is a research center dedicated to advancing empirical and computational methods for the study of social and political phenomena.
- 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: Bing Professor of Population Studies Target entity description: Bing Professor of Population Studies is an endowed academic chair at Stanford University held by biologist and population theorist Paul R. Ehrlich.
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A.
Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor
The Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor is a prestigious endowed professorship at the University of Chicago, historically associated with eminent scholars such as astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
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B.
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities is a prestigious endowed academic chair in the humanities, notably held by Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel.
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C.
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is a Harvard research center that investigates global population health, demographic change, and social determinants of health to inform policy and improve well-being worldwide.
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D.
Global Development and Population Program
The Global Development and Population Program is a Hewlett Foundation initiative that supports evidence-based policies and organizations working to reduce poverty, improve governance, and advance reproductive health and rights worldwide.
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Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University
The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University is a research center dedicated to advancing empirical and computational methods for the study of social and political phenomena.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic position
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endowed chair ⓘ |
| academicDepartment |
Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University
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Department of Biology at Stanford University ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
biology
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population studies ⓘ |
| affiliation | Stanford University ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fieldOfWorkOfHolder |
conservation biology
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ecology ⓘ population theory ⓘ |
| holder | Paul R. Ehrlich ⓘ |
| holderOccupation |
biologist
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population theorist ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Stanford University
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Stanford, California ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bing family ⓘ |
| partOf |
Stanford University
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surface form:
Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences
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| university | Stanford University ⓘ |
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: Bing Professor of Population Studies Description of subject: Bing Professor of Population Studies is an endowed academic chair at Stanford University held by biologist and population theorist Paul R. Ehrlich.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.