David Armitage (historian)
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David Armitage is a British historian and professor known for his influential work on intellectual history, international law, and the history of political thought, particularly regarding empire and global history.
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| David Armitage (historian) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14722734 — 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: David Armitage (historian) Context triple: [Armitage, hasNotableBearer, David Armitage (historian)]
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A.
Sir Richard J. Evans
Sir Richard J. Evans is a prominent British historian renowned for his extensive work on modern German history and the historiography of the Third Reich.
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B.
Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark is a prominent historian best known for his work on modern European history, particularly his influential study of the origins of World War I.
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C.
Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner is a prominent British intellectual historian and political theorist known for his influential work on the history of political thought and the development of the Cambridge School of contextualist interpretation.
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D.
Sir John H. Plumb
Sir John H. Plumb was a prominent 20th-century British historian renowned for his influential works on 18th-century Britain and his role in shaping modern historical scholarship.
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E.
Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
- 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 Armitage (historian) Target entity description: David Armitage is a British historian and professor known for his influential work on intellectual history, international law, and the history of political thought, particularly regarding empire and global history.
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A.
Sir Richard J. Evans
Sir Richard J. Evans is a prominent British historian renowned for his extensive work on modern German history and the historiography of the Third Reich.
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B.
Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark is a prominent historian best known for his work on modern European history, particularly his influential study of the origins of World War I.
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C.
Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner is a prominent British intellectual historian and political theorist known for his influential work on the history of political thought and the development of the Cambridge School of contextualist interpretation.
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D.
Sir John H. Plumb
Sir John H. Plumb was a prominent 20th-century British historian renowned for his influential works on 18th-century Britain and his role in shaping modern historical scholarship.
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E.
Herbert Butterfield
Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history best known for his influential critique of teleological, progress-focused narratives in historical writing.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.