Clifford May
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Clifford May is an American journalist and foreign policy analyst best known as the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clifford May canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3540639 — 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: Clifford May Context triple: [May, hasNotableBearer, Clifford May]
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A.
Raymond Gardner
Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
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B.
Laurence Gardner
Laurence Gardner was a British author and lecturer known for his controversial books on alternative history, secret societies, and speculative theories about royal bloodlines and religious history.
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C.
J. Peter Robinson
J. Peter Robinson is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist known for his film and television scores as well as his work in rock and jazz fusion.
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D.
Paul Le Mat
Paul Le Mat is an American actor best known for his breakout role as the hot-rodder John Milner in the coming-of-age film "American Graffiti."
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E.
Vincent Winter
Vincent Winter was a Scottish child actor who gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, later working behind the scenes in film production.
- 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: Clifford May Target entity description: Clifford May is an American journalist and foreign policy analyst best known as the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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A.
Raymond Gardner
Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
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B.
Laurence Gardner
Laurence Gardner was a British author and lecturer known for his controversial books on alternative history, secret societies, and speculative theories about royal bloodlines and religious history.
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C.
J. Peter Robinson
J. Peter Robinson is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist known for his film and television scores as well as his work in rock and jazz fusion.
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D.
Paul Le Mat
Paul Le Mat is an American actor best known for his breakout role as the hot-rodder John Milner in the coming-of-age film "American Graffiti."
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E.
Vincent Winter
Vincent Winter was a Scottish child actor who gained prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, later working behind the scenes in film production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
foreign policy analyst
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Foundation for Defense of Democracies ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
foreign policy
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journalism ⓘ national security ⓘ |
| genre |
foreign policy analysis
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political commentary ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding the Foundation for Defense of Democracies ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Foundation for Defense of Democracies ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
advocacy for strong U.S. national security policy
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support for democracy promotion ⓘ |
| notableWork | columns on national security and foreign policy ⓘ |
| occupation |
columnist
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foreign policy analyst ⓘ journalist ⓘ think tank president ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founder of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
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president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C. (region)
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| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Clifford May Description of subject: Clifford May is an American journalist and foreign policy analyst best known as the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.