Floyd E. Dominy
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Floyd E. Dominy was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. Bureau of Reclamation commissioner best known for championing large Western water projects such as the Glen Canyon Dam.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15083845 — 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: Floyd E. Dominy Context triple: [Floyd, hasNotableBearer, Floyd E. Dominy]
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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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B.
Stephen A. Hurlbut
Stephen A. Hurlbut was a Union Army general and politician who played a significant leadership role in the American Civil War and later served as a U.S. diplomat.
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C.
Herbert E. Winlock
Herbert E. Winlock was an influential American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his extensive early 20th-century excavations and research on ancient Theban sites in Egypt.
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D.
William Sturgis Bigelow
William Sturgis Bigelow was an American physician, art collector, and influential early Western patron of Japanese art and Buddhism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Donald W. Sherburne
Donald W. Sherburne was an American philosopher and prominent interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy.
- 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: Floyd E. Dominy Target entity description: Floyd E. Dominy was a powerful mid-20th-century U.S. Bureau of Reclamation commissioner best known for championing large Western water projects such as the Glen Canyon Dam.
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A.
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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B.
Stephen A. Hurlbut
Stephen A. Hurlbut was a Union Army general and politician who played a significant leadership role in the American Civil War and later served as a U.S. diplomat.
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C.
Herbert E. Winlock
Herbert E. Winlock was an influential American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his extensive early 20th-century excavations and research on ancient Theban sites in Egypt.
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D.
William Sturgis Bigelow
William Sturgis Bigelow was an American physician, art collector, and influential early Western patron of Japanese art and Buddhism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Donald W. Sherburne
Donald W. Sherburne was an American philosopher and prominent interpreter of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
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