Alan Taylor
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Alan Taylor is an American historian renowned for his influential works on early American history, for which he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for History.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Taylor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1033564 — 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: Alan Taylor Context triple: [Pulitzer Prize for History, notableWinner, Alan Taylor]
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A.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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B.
Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
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C.
Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin is an American historian and author known for his influential works on U.S. foreign policy, Latin American history, and imperialism.
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D.
Alfred W. Crosby
Alfred W. Crosby was an American environmental historian whose influential work on ecological and cultural consequences of European expansion helped establish the field of environmental history.
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E.
Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman was a 19th-century American historian best known for his multi-volume works on the French and British struggle for control of North America, including "France and England in North America."
- 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: Alan Taylor Target entity description: Alan Taylor is an American historian renowned for his influential works on early American history, for which he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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A.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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B.
Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
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C.
Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin is an American historian and author known for his influential works on U.S. foreign policy, Latin American history, and imperialism.
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D.
Alfred W. Crosby
Alfred W. Crosby was an American environmental historian whose influential work on ecological and cultural consequences of European expansion helped establish the field of environmental history.
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E.
Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman was a 19th-century American historian best known for his multi-volume works on the French and British struggle for control of North America, including "France and England in North America."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Alan Taylor Description of subject: Alan Taylor is an American historian renowned for his influential works on early American history, for which he has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.