Eric Foner
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Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Foner canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5006932 — 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 Foner Context triple: [Bancroft Prize, notableRecipient, Eric Foner]
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A.
David T. Wilentz
David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
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B.
Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
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C.
Kenneth H. Jackson
Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
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D.
Jeremy Iggers
Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
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E.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
- 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 Foner Target entity description: Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
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A.
David T. Wilentz
David T. Wilentz was a prominent American lawyer and politician best known as the New Jersey Attorney General who prosecuted the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
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B.
Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood is a prominent American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on the American Revolution and the early United States.
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C.
Kenneth H. Jackson
Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
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D.
Jeremy Iggers
Jeremy Iggers is an American journalist and food critic known for his work at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and his influential writing on ethics in restaurant reviewing.
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E.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Eric Foner Description of subject: Eric Foner is a prominent American historian best known for his influential scholarship on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and American freedom.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.