Mowrer
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Mowrer is a surname most notably associated with American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Mowrer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mowrer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10788105 — 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: Mowrer Context triple: [Paul Mowrer, familyName, Mowrer]
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A.
Mosby
Mosby is a surname most famously associated with John S. Mosby, a Confederate cavalry battalion commander and guerrilla leader during the American Civil War.
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B.
Maurer
Maurer is a German-language surname common in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and the arts.
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C.
Bonger
Bonger is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the key figure in preserving and promoting Vincent van Gogh’s artistic legacy.
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D.
Fiedler
Fiedler is a sharp, idealistic East German intelligence officer in John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
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E.
Mullen
Mullen is the surname of Larry Mullen Jr., the Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band U2.
- 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: Mowrer Target entity description: Mowrer is a surname most notably associated with American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Mowrer.
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A.
Mosby
Mosby is a surname most famously associated with John S. Mosby, a Confederate cavalry battalion commander and guerrilla leader during the American Civil War.
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B.
Maurer
Maurer is a German-language surname common in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, borne by various notable figures in politics, sports, and the arts.
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C.
Bonger
Bonger is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the key figure in preserving and promoting Vincent van Gogh’s artistic legacy.
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D.
Fiedler
Fiedler is a sharp, idealistic East German intelligence officer in John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
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E.
Mullen
Mullen is the surname of Larry Mullen Jr., the Irish drummer best known as a founding member of the rock band U2.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Pulitzer Prize
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pulitzer Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1887-07-13
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1892-03-08 ⓘ 1907-02-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1971-04-04
ⓘ
1977-03-02 ⓘ 1982-06-20 ⓘ |
| employer |
Chicago Daily News
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chicago Daily News NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName |
Mowrer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mowrer NERFINISHED ⓘ Mowrer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
learning theory
ⓘ
psychology ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Edgar Ansel Mowrer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
O. Hobart Mowrer NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Scott Mowrer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Germany Puts the Clock Back
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
journalism on World War I ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ journalist ⓘ professor ⓘ psychologist ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bloomington, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Concord, New Hampshire, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ernest Hemingway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hadley Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Hadley Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Scott Mowrer 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: Mowrer Description of subject: Mowrer is a surname most notably associated with American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Mowrer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.