Seligman
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Seligman is a surname most notably associated with British physician and anthropologist Charles Gabriel Seligman.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13208539 — 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: Seligman Context triple: [Charles Gabriel Seligman, familyName, Seligman]
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A.
Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman is an American psychologist best known as a founder of positive psychology and for his work on learned helplessness and well-being.
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B.
Skinner
Skinner is the antagonistic head chef of Gusteau’s restaurant in Pixar’s animated film "Ratatouille," known for his scheming nature and opposition to the protagonist Remy.
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C.
Skinner
Skinner is a surname most prominently associated with Quentin Skinner, a leading British intellectual historian and political theorist.
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D.
Skinner
Skinner is a fictional member of the J-Squad military unit in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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E.
Paul Mowrer
Paul Mowrer was an American journalist and foreign correspondent who won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1929.
- 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: Seligman Target entity description: Seligman is a surname most notably associated with British physician and anthropologist Charles Gabriel Seligman.
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A.
Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman is an American psychologist best known as a founder of positive psychology and for his work on learned helplessness and well-being.
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B.
Skinner
Skinner is the antagonistic head chef of Gusteau’s restaurant in Pixar’s animated film "Ratatouille," known for his scheming nature and opposition to the protagonist Remy.
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C.
Skinner
Skinner is a surname most prominently associated with Quentin Skinner, a leading British intellectual historian and political theorist.
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D.
Skinner
Skinner is a fictional member of the J-Squad military unit in the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow."
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E.
Paul Mowrer
Paul Mowrer was an American journalist and foreign correspondent who won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1929.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ physician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
ethnology
ⓘ
physical anthropology ⓘ positive psychology ⓘ public finance ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Brenda Zara Seligman
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Charles Gabriel Seligman ⓘ Dan Seligman ⓘ Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman ⓘ Eustace Seligman ⓘ Isaac Newton Seligman ⓘ Joel Seligman ⓘ Joseph Seligman ⓘ Martin Seligman ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Seligmann
ⓘ
linked to:
Seligman
Zeligman ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
German
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| notableFor | studies of the peoples of Ceylon and Sudan ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
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anthropologist ⓘ banker ⓘ banker ⓘ economist ⓘ journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ physician ⓘ psychologist ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| spouse | Brenda Zara Seligman ⓘ |
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: Seligman Description of subject: Seligman is a surname most notably associated with British physician and anthropologist Charles Gabriel Seligman.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Seligman
linked to: Seligman