David W. Blight
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David W. Blight is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his scholarship on the Civil War and the memory of slavery, particularly through works like his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Frederick Douglass.
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| David W. Blight canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12747425 — 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 W. Blight Context triple: [Lincoln Prize, notableRecipient, David W. Blight]
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Allen C. Guelzo
Allen C. Guelzo is an American historian and author renowned for his scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
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B.
Kenneth H. Jackson
Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
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C.
Eric Foner
Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
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D.
Robert N. Wilentz
Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
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E.
David T. Wilentz
David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
- 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 W. Blight Target entity description: David W. Blight is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his scholarship on the Civil War and the memory of slavery, particularly through works like his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Frederick Douglass.
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A.
Allen C. Guelzo
Allen C. Guelzo is an American historian and author renowned for his scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
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B.
Kenneth H. Jackson
Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
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C.
Eric Foner
Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
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D.
Robert N. Wilentz
Robert N. Wilentz was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1996.
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E.
David T. Wilentz
David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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historian ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | history ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
NERFINISHED
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Bancroft Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis Parkman Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for History NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Michigan State University
NERFINISHED
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University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer | Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Blight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American history
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Civil War history ⓘ history of slavery ⓘ memory studies ⓘ |
| genre | historical non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American historical profession ⓘ |
| name | David W. Blight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
biographical work on Frederick Douglass
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scholarship on the American Civil War ⓘ scholarship on the history and memory of slavery ⓘ scholarship on the memory of the Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation
NERFINISHED
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era NERFINISHED ⓘ Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee NERFINISHED ⓘ Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory NERFINISHED ⓘ Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory NERFINISHED ⓘ Voices of the Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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historian ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
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Sterling Professor of History at Yale University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
African American history
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Civil War memory ⓘ abolitionism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New Haven, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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