Michael Kazin
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Michael Kazin is an American historian and political commentator known for his work on U.S. populism and the American left, and for co-editing the intellectual journal Dissent.
All labels observed (1)
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| Michael Kazin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13368502 — 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: Michael Kazin Context triple: [Dissent, notableEditor, Michael Kazin]
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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.
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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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Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen was an American historian renowned for his work on U.S. cultural history and collective memory, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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D.
Arnold Perlstein
Arnold Perlstein is a cautious, often nervous student known for his humorous reluctance to join Ms. Frizzle’s wild science adventures in The Magic School Bus series.
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E.
Eric Foner
Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
- 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: Michael Kazin Target entity description: Michael Kazin is an American historian and political commentator known for his work on U.S. populism and the American left, and for co-editing the intellectual journal Dissent.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
Michael Kammen
Michael Kammen was an American historian renowned for his work on U.S. cultural history and collective memory, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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D.
Arnold Perlstein
Arnold Perlstein is a cautious, often nervous student known for his humorous reluctance to join Ms. Frizzle’s wild science adventures in The Magic School Bus series.
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E.
Eric Foner
Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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historian ⓘ human ⓘ political commentator ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
American studies
NERFINISHED
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history ⓘ |
| coEditorOf | Dissent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| editorialRole | co-editor of Dissent magazine ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Georgetown University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
U.S. history
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history of populism ⓘ history of the American left ⓘ political history ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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intellectual history ⓘ political history ⓘ |
| hasRole |
political commentator on U.S. politics
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public intellectual ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
The American Prospect
NERFINISHED
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The Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-editing Dissent magazine
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scholarship on U.S. populism ⓘ scholarship on the American left ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | American left-wing politics (as a subject of study) ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea | interpretation of populism as a recurring style in U.S. politics ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
NERFINISHED
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era NERFINISHED ⓘ The Populist Persuasion: An American History NERFINISHED ⓘ War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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historian ⓘ university professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of history at Georgetown University ⓘ |
| spouse | Beth Horowitz Kazin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
American left-wing movements
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U.S. political culture ⓘ U.S. populist movements ⓘ |
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: Michael Kazin Description of subject: Michael Kazin is an American historian and political commentator known for his work on U.S. populism and the American left, and for co-editing the intellectual journal Dissent.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dissent