Robert Redfield
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Robert Redfield is an American virologist and public health official who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2018 to 2021.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Redfield canonical | 2 |
| Robert R. Redfield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5475907 — 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: Robert Redfield Context triple: [Redfield, hasNotableBearer, Robert Redfield]
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A.
Julian Steward
Julian Steward was an American anthropologist best known for developing the theory of cultural ecology, which examined how cultures adapt to their environments.
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B.
Walter Sande
Walter Sande was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1960s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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C.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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D.
Paul Schuster Taylor
Paul Schuster Taylor was an American economist and social scientist known for his pioneering studies of migrant farmworkers and his collaborative documentary work with photographer Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression.
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E.
Carl O. Sauer
Carl O. Sauer was an influential American geographer known for shaping cultural geography through his work on human–environment interactions and the concept of the cultural landscape.
- 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: Robert Redfield Target entity description: Robert Redfield is an American virologist and public health official who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2018 to 2021.
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A.
Julian Steward
Julian Steward was an American anthropologist best known for developing the theory of cultural ecology, which examined how cultures adapt to their environments.
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B.
Walter Sande
Walter Sande was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1960s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
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C.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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D.
Paul Schuster Taylor
Paul Schuster Taylor was an American economist and social scientist known for his pioneering studies of migrant farmworkers and his collaborative documentary work with photographer Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression.
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E.
Carl O. Sauer
Carl O. Sauer was an influential American geographer known for shaping cultural geography through his work on human–environment interactions and the concept of the cultural landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government official
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human ⓘ physician ⓘ public health official ⓘ virologist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Doctor of Medicine ⓘ |
| affiliation | Republican Party ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Donald Trump ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Institute of Human Virology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgetown University
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Georgetown University School of Medicine ⓘ
linked to:
Georgetown University Medical Center
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| employer |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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University of Maryland School of Medicine ⓘ |
| endTime | 2021-01-20 ⓘ |
| familyName | Redfield ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
HIV/AIDS research
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infectious disease ⓘ public health ⓘ virology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
epidemiology of infectious diseases
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public health policy ⓘ viral pathogenesis ⓘ |
| memberOf | White House Coronavirus Task Force ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Robert Redfield ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | U.S. federal government spokesperson on COVID-19 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States
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linked to:
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
HIV vaccine research ⓘ HIV/AIDS clinical research ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
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public health administrator ⓘ university professor ⓘ virologist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
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Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ⓘ |
| startTime | 2018-03-26 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Atlanta, Georgia
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linked to:
Atlanta
Baltimore, Maryland ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Walter Reed Army Medical Center ⓘ
linked to:
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
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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: Robert Redfield Description of subject: Robert Redfield is an American virologist and public health official who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2018 to 2021.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert Redfield