Eric Hobsbawm
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Eric Hobsbawm was a British Marxist historian renowned for his influential works on the "long nineteenth century" and the social and economic history of modern Europe.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Hobsbawm canonical | 2 |
| Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm | 1 |
| Hobsbawm | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3614769 — 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: Eric Hobsbawm Context triple: [American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction, notableRecipient, Eric Hobsbawm]
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A.
Orlando Figes
Orlando Figes is a British historian and author renowned for his influential works on Russian and European history.
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Carl Schorske
Carl Schorske was an influential American cultural and intellectual historian best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning work on fin-de-siècle Vienna and the development of modern European thought.
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C.
A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor was a prominent 20th-century British historian and broadcaster, known for his influential and often controversial works on European and diplomatic history.
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D.
R. H. Tawney
R. H. Tawney was a prominent British economic historian, Christian socialist, and social critic known for his influential analyses of religion, capitalism, and social inequality.
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E.
Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson is a British historian and essayist known for his influential Marxist analyses of Western society, politics, and intellectual history, particularly through his long association with the New Left Review.
- 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: Eric Hobsbawm Target entity description: Eric Hobsbawm was a British Marxist historian renowned for his influential works on the "long nineteenth century" and the social and economic history of modern Europe.
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A.
Orlando Figes
Orlando Figes is a British historian and author renowned for his influential works on Russian and European history.
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B.
Carl Schorske
Carl Schorske was an influential American cultural and intellectual historian best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning work on fin-de-siècle Vienna and the development of modern European thought.
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C.
A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor was a prominent 20th-century British historian and broadcaster, known for his influential and often controversial works on European and diplomatic history.
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D.
R. H. Tawney
R. H. Tawney was a prominent British economic historian, Christian socialist, and social critic known for his influential analyses of religion, capitalism, and social inequality.
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E.
Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson is a British historian and essayist known for his influential Marxist analyses of Western society, politics, and intellectual history, particularly through his long association with the New Left Review.
- 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
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Input
Subject: Eric Hobsbawm Description of subject: Eric Hobsbawm was a British Marxist historian renowned for his influential works on the "long nineteenth century" and the social and economic history of modern Europe.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction
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notableRecipient
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Eric Hobsbawm
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this entity surface form:
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm
this entity surface form:
Hobsbawm