Howard Kushner
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Howard Kushner is an American historian of medicine and public health known for his work on the cultural and historical dimensions of neurological and behavioral disorders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Kushner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10870986 — 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: Howard Kushner Context triple: [Kushner, hasNotableBearer, Howard Kushner]
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A.
Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner is an American real estate developer and Democratic political donor who founded Kushner Companies and was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes before receiving a presidential pardon.
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B.
Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner is an American investor and former senior advisor to President Donald Trump, known for his influential role in the Trump administration and his marriage to Ivanka Trump.
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C.
Michael D. Cohen
Michael D. Cohen was an American organizational theorist and professor known for his influential work on organizational decision-making and the "garbage can model" of organizational choice.
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D.
Scott Kushner
Scott Kushner is an American sports journalist and columnist known for his coverage of New Orleans–area teams, particularly the New Orleans Pelicans.
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E.
Michael F. Cohen
Michael F. Cohen is a prominent computer graphics researcher recognized for his influential contributions to the field, including receiving the prestigious Steven A. Coons Award.
- 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: Howard Kushner Target entity description: Howard Kushner is an American historian of medicine and public health known for his work on the cultural and historical dimensions of neurological and behavioral disorders.
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A.
Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner is an American real estate developer and Democratic political donor who founded Kushner Companies and was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes before receiving a presidential pardon.
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B.
Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner is an American investor and former senior advisor to President Donald Trump, known for his influential role in the Trump administration and his marriage to Ivanka Trump.
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C.
Michael D. Cohen
Michael D. Cohen was an American organizational theorist and professor known for his influential work on organizational decision-making and the "garbage can model" of organizational choice.
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D.
Scott Kushner
Scott Kushner is an American sports journalist and columnist known for his coverage of New Orleans–area teams, particularly the New Orleans Pelicans.
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E.
Michael F. Cohen
Michael F. Cohen is a prominent computer graphics researcher recognized for his influential contributions to the field, including receiving the prestigious Steven A. Coons Award.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historian
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human ⓘ medical historian ⓘ public health historian ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cultural history of disease
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history of behavioral disorders ⓘ history of medicine ⓘ history of neurology ⓘ history of neuroscience ⓘ history of psychiatry ⓘ history of public health ⓘ |
| genre | academic writing ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
history
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medical humanities ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
interdisciplinary work linking history, medicine, and public health
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research on cultural dimensions of neurological disorders ⓘ research on historical dimensions of behavioral disorders ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian of medicine
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historian of public health ⓘ |
| studies |
behavioral disorders
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cultural aspects of disease ⓘ historical aspects of disease ⓘ neurological disorders ⓘ |
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: Howard Kushner Description of subject: Howard Kushner is an American historian of medicine and public health known for his work on the cultural and historical dimensions of neurological and behavioral disorders.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.