David F. Levi
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David F. Levi is an American legal scholar and former federal judge who served as dean of Duke University School of Law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David F. Levi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1218314 — 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: David F. Levi Context triple: [Duke University School of Law, hasNotableAlumnus, David F. Levi]
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A.
John L. Friedman
John L. Friedman is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, including work on instabilities in rotating stars.
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B.
Daniel A. Wolf
Daniel A. Wolf is an American entrepreneur and politician best known as the founder of regional airline Cape Air and as a former Massachusetts state senator.
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C.
Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Z. Leonard was an American film director and producer best known for his work on lavish Hollywood musicals and dramas during the classic studio era.
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D.
Jay O. Rothman
Jay O. Rothman is an American attorney and academic leader who serves as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
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E.
James D. Stern
James D. Stern is an American film producer and director known for backing a range of acclaimed independent and genre films, as well as documentaries.
- 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 F. Levi Target entity description: David F. Levi is an American legal scholar and former federal judge who served as dean of Duke University School of Law.
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A.
John L. Friedman
John L. Friedman is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, including work on instabilities in rotating stars.
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B.
Daniel A. Wolf
Daniel A. Wolf is an American entrepreneur and politician best known as the founder of regional airline Cape Air and as a former Massachusetts state senator.
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C.
Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Z. Leonard was an American film director and producer best known for his work on lavish Hollywood musicals and dramas during the classic studio era.
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D.
Jay O. Rothman
Jay O. Rothman is an American attorney and academic leader who serves as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
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E.
James D. Stern
James D. Stern is an American film producer and director known for backing a range of acclaimed independent and genre films, as well as documentaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former federal judge
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human ⓘ law school dean ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Duke University
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Duke University School of Law ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
Harvard Law School ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ Oxford University ⓘ
linked to:
University of Oxford
|
| employer | Duke University School of Law ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil procedure
ⓘ
judicial administration ⓘ law ⓘ |
| genre | legal scholarship ⓘ |
| hasGivenRole | leader in legal education in the United States ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| notableWork |
scholarship on civil procedure
ⓘ
scholarship on judicial administration ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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law professor ⓘ law school dean ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
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Dean of Duke University School of Law ⓘ United States District Judge ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Durham, North Carolina
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Eastern District of California ⓘ |
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: David F. Levi Description of subject: David F. Levi is an American legal scholar and former federal judge who served as dean of Duke University School of Law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.