Will Durant
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Will Durant was an American historian and philosopher best known for co-authoring the multi-volume work "The Story of Civilization" with his wife, Ariel Durant.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Will Durant canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2214148 — 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: Will Durant Context triple: [Durant, hasNotableBearer, Will Durant]
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A.
Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popularizer of the Great Books movement, known for his work on liberal education and efforts to make philosophy accessible to the general public.
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Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and co-author, with her husband Will Durant, of the influential multi-volume series "The Story of Civilization."
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C.
Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee was a prominent British historian and philosopher of history best known for his multi-volume work "A Study of History," which analyzed the rise and fall of civilizations.
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D.
Michael H. Hart
Michael H. Hart is an American astrophysicist and author best known for his work on the Fermi paradox and his controversial book "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History."
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E.
I. Bernard Cohen
I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
- 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: Will Durant Target entity description: Will Durant was an American historian and philosopher best known for co-authoring the multi-volume work "The Story of Civilization" with his wife, Ariel Durant.
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A.
Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popularizer of the Great Books movement, known for his work on liberal education and efforts to make philosophy accessible to the general public.
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B.
Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and co-author, with her husband Will Durant, of the influential multi-volume series "The Story of Civilization."
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C.
Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee was a prominent British historian and philosopher of history best known for his multi-volume work "A Study of History," which analyzed the rise and fall of civilizations.
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D.
Michael H. Hart
Michael H. Hart is an American astrophysicist and author best known for his work on the Fermi paradox and his controversial book "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History."
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E.
I. Bernard Cohen
I. Bernard Cohen was a prominent American historian of science best known for his influential scholarship on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Will Durant Description of subject: Will Durant was an American historian and philosopher best known for co-authoring the multi-volume work "The Story of Civilization" with his wife, Ariel Durant.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.