Howard Bowen
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Howard Bowen was an American economist and university administrator best known for pioneering the concept of corporate social responsibility in modern business ethics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Bowen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3042217 — 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: Howard Bowen Context triple: [Bowen, hasNotableBearer, Howard Bowen]
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A.
Roger Bowen
Roger Bowen was an American actor and writer best known for playing Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake in the 1970 film "MASH."
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B.
Stephen Bowen
Stephen Bowen is a former American football defensive end who played in the NFL, most notably for the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins.
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C.
John Boles
John Boles was an American actor and singer best known for his leading-man roles in early sound-era Hollywood films.
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D.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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E.
John Bunn
John Bunn was an American basketball coach and administrator known for his influential roles in college basketball and contributions to the sport’s development.
- 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: Howard Bowen Target entity description: Howard Bowen was an American economist and university administrator best known for pioneering the concept of corporate social responsibility in modern business ethics.
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A.
Roger Bowen
Roger Bowen was an American actor and writer best known for playing Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake in the 1970 film "MASH."
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B.
Stephen Bowen
Stephen Bowen is a former American football defensive end who played in the NFL, most notably for the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins.
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C.
John Boles
John Boles was an American actor and singer best known for his leading-man roles in early sound-era Hollywood films.
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D.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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E.
John Bunn
John Bunn was an American basketball coach and administrator known for his influential roles in college basketball and contributions to the sport’s development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
corporate governance
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social responsibility of business ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of corporate social responsibility as a management concept
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integration of ethical considerations into business decision-making ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Bowen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business ethics
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corporate social responsibility ⓘ economics ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
business
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public policy ⓘ |
| hasNotableIdea |
corporate social responsibility
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social obligations of business corporations ⓘ |
| hasRole |
dean
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professor ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| influenced |
business ethics scholarship
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theory of corporate social responsibility ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to modern business ethics
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pioneering the concept of corporate social responsibility ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
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university administrator ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Howard Bowen Description of subject: Howard Bowen was an American economist and university administrator best known for pioneering the concept of corporate social responsibility in modern business ethics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.