Thomas Ehrlich
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Thomas Ehrlich is an American legal scholar and academic administrator known for serving as president of Indiana University and for his work promoting civic engagement in higher education.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Ehrlich canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2920585 — 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: Thomas Ehrlich Context triple: [Ehrlich, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Ehrlich]
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A.
Max Ehrlich
Max Ehrlich was a German-Jewish actor, comedian, and writer known for his cabaret performances in the early 20th century and his tragic death in the Holocaust.
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B.
Charles Hartmann
Charles Hartmann is a central fictional character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "The Girl at the Lion d’Or," depicted as a middle-aged, married lawyer and politician who becomes romantically involved with the young waitress Anne Louvet in 1930s France.
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C.
Wolfgang Ehrlich
Wolfgang Ehrlich is a notable individual who shares the Ehrlich surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
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D.
Samuel Ehrlich
Samuel Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Ehrlich.
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E.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
- 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: Thomas Ehrlich Target entity description: Thomas Ehrlich is an American legal scholar and academic administrator known for serving as president of Indiana University and for his work promoting civic engagement in higher education.
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A.
Max Ehrlich
Max Ehrlich was a German-Jewish actor, comedian, and writer known for his cabaret performances in the early 20th century and his tragic death in the Holocaust.
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B.
Charles Hartmann
Charles Hartmann is a central fictional character in Sebastian Faulks’s novel "The Girl at the Lion d’Or," depicted as a middle-aged, married lawyer and politician who becomes romantically involved with the young waitress Anne Louvet in 1930s France.
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C.
Wolfgang Ehrlich
Wolfgang Ehrlich is a notable individual who shares the Ehrlich surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
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D.
Samuel Ehrlich
Samuel Ehrlich is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Ehrlich.
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E.
Robert Ochsenfeld
Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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human ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
Harvard Law School ⓘ |
| employer | Indiana University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civic engagement in higher education
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higher education administration ⓘ law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicSpecialty | public service and civic responsibility in universities ⓘ |
| hasPublishedOn |
civic responsibility of universities
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service learning ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American academic community ⓘ |
| movement | civic engagement movement in higher education ⓘ |
| notableFor |
presidency of Indiana University
ⓘ
promoting civic engagement in higher education ⓘ |
| occupation |
legal scholar
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professor ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Indiana University ⓘ |
| workLocation | Bloomington, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Thomas Ehrlich Description of subject: Thomas Ehrlich is an American legal scholar and academic administrator known for serving as president of Indiana University and for his work promoting civic engagement in higher education.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.