Brian Nosek
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Brian Nosek is a social psychologist best known as the co-founder and executive director of the Center for Open Science and a leading figure in the scientific reproducibility and open science movements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brian Nosek canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4424422 — 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: Brian Nosek Context triple: [Nosek, hasNotableBearer, Brian Nosek]
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A.
Jim Mothersbaugh
Jim Mothersbaugh is an American musician and former drummer best known for his early work with the new wave band Devo.
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B.
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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C.
Ric Ocasek
Ric Ocasek was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as the frontman of the new wave band The Cars and for producing influential rock albums.
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D.
John Clarkson
John Clarkson was a British abolitionist and naval officer who played a key role in establishing the Sierra Leone colony for freed slaves in the late 18th century.
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E.
Otis Wilbury
Otis Wilbury is the pseudonymous persona used by musician Jeff Lynne as a member of the supergroup Traveling Wilburys.
- 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: Brian Nosek Target entity description: Brian Nosek is a social psychologist best known as the co-founder and executive director of the Center for Open Science and a leading figure in the scientific reproducibility and open science movements.
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A.
Jim Mothersbaugh
Jim Mothersbaugh is an American musician and former drummer best known for his early work with the new wave band Devo.
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B.
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh is an American composer, musician, and co-founder of the band Devo, known for his extensive work scoring films and television.
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C.
Ric Ocasek
Ric Ocasek was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer best known as the frontman of the new wave band The Cars and for producing influential rock albums.
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D.
John Clarkson
John Clarkson was a British abolitionist and naval officer who played a key role in establishing the Sierra Leone colony for freed slaves in the late 18th century.
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E.
Otis Wilbury
Otis Wilbury is the pseudonymous persona used by musician Jeff Lynne as a member of the supergroup Traveling Wilburys.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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social psychologist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in psychology ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Center for Open Science
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University of Virginia Department of Psychology ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Center for Open Science
ⓘ
Project Implicit ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Calvin College
ⓘ
linked to:
Calvin University
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Center for Open Science
ⓘ
University of Virginia ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
metascience
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open science ⓘ scientific reproducibility ⓘ social psychology ⓘ |
| givenName | Brian ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor of psychology ⓘ |
| hasRole |
advocate for data sharing
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advocate for preregistration of studies ⓘ advocate for reproducible research practices ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Center for Open Science
ⓘ
Reproducibility Project: Psychology ⓘ
linked to:
Reproducibility Project
open science movement ⓘ scientific reproducibility movement ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| movement |
open science
ⓘ
scientific reform movement ⓘ |
| name | Brian Nosek ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Open Science Framework
ⓘ
linked to:
Center for Open Science
Reproducibility Project: Psychology ⓘ
linked to:
Reproducibility Project
|
| occupation |
nonprofit executive
ⓘ
professor ⓘ psychologist ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| position |
co-founder of the Center for Open Science
ⓘ
executive director of the Center for Open Science ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
attitudes
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implicit bias ⓘ implicit social cognition ⓘ research transparency ⓘ scientific methodology ⓘ stereotypes ⓘ |
| workLocation | Charlottesville, Virginia ⓘ |
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: Brian Nosek Description of subject: Brian Nosek is a social psychologist best known as the co-founder and executive director of the Center for Open Science and a leading figure in the scientific reproducibility and open science movements.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.