James A. Brundage
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James A. Brundage is an American historian and legal scholar best known for his influential work on medieval canon law and the history of sexuality.
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| James A. Brundage canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10234543 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James A. Brundage Context triple: [Brundage, hasNotableBearer, James A. Brundage]
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Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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Alvin C. Voris
Alvin C. Voris was a Union Army officer and brigadier general during the American Civil War who later became a prominent Ohio lawyer and politician.
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Herbert L. Anderson
Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
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Donald W. Sherburne
Donald W. Sherburne was an American philosopher and prominent interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy.
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Charles T. Brumback
Charles T. Brumback was an American media executive best known for serving as a top leader, including CEO, of the Tribune Company, the major newspaper and broadcasting conglomerate.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James A. Brundage Target entity description: James A. Brundage is an American historian and legal scholar best known for his influential work on medieval canon law and the history of sexuality.
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A.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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B.
Alvin C. Voris
Alvin C. Voris was a Union Army officer and brigadier general during the American Civil War who later became a prominent Ohio lawyer and politician.
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C.
Herbert L. Anderson
Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
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D.
Donald W. Sherburne
Donald W. Sherburne was an American philosopher and prominent interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy.
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E.
Charles T. Brumback
Charles T. Brumback was an American media executive best known for serving as a top leader, including CEO, of the Tribune Company, the major newspaper and broadcasting conglomerate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historian
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human ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ medievalist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
canon law
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history ⓘ law ⓘ |
| citizenship | American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Kansas
NERFINISHED
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
canon law
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church history ⓘ history of medieval law ⓘ history of sexuality ⓘ legal history ⓘ medieval history ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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scholarly literature ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor ⓘ |
| influenced |
historiography of medieval sexuality
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scholarship on medieval canon law ⓘ |
| influencedBy | medieval canonists ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analysis of church law on marriage
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studies of medieval canon law ⓘ studies of medieval sexuality ⓘ work on the medieval legal profession ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
history of sexuality scholarship
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social history of law ⓘ |
| notableIdea | integration of legal and social history in medieval studies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe
NERFINISHED
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Medieval Canon Law NERFINISHED ⓘ Sex, Law, and Marriage in the Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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university teacher ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
Christianity
NERFINISHED
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marriage law ⓘ medieval Europe ⓘ sexual ethics ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: James A. Brundage Description of subject: James A. Brundage is an American historian and legal scholar best known for his influential work on medieval canon law and the history of sexuality.
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