Dell Hathaway Hymes
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Dell Hathaway Hymes was an influential American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dell Hathaway Hymes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5540308 — 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: Dell Hathaway Hymes Context triple: [Dell Hymes, name, Dell Hathaway Hymes]
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A.
John C. Wells
John C. Wells is a prominent British phonetician and phonologist known for his influential work on English accents and pronunciation, including his analyses of BBC English.
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B.
Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood is an American radio and television commentator best known as the longtime host of CBS News Sunday Morning.
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C.
Andreas Whittam Smith
Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
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D.
Joseph Williams
Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
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E.
David LeFevre Dodd
David LeFevre Dodd was an American economist and Columbia University professor best known for co-authoring the seminal value investing text "Security Analysis" with Benjamin Graham.
- 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: Dell Hathaway Hymes Target entity description: Dell Hathaway Hymes was an influential American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.
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A.
John C. Wells
John C. Wells is a prominent British phonetician and phonologist known for his influential work on English accents and pronunciation, including his analyses of BBC English.
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B.
Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood is an American radio and television commentator best known as the longtime host of CBS News Sunday Morning.
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C.
Andreas Whittam Smith
Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
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D.
Joseph Williams
Joseph Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and composer best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto and the son of famed film composer John Williams.
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E.
David LeFevre Dodd
David LeFevre Dodd was an American economist and Columbia University professor best known for co-authoring the seminal value investing text "Security Analysis" with Benjamin Graham.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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human ⓘ linguist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in linguistics ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Guggenheim Fellowship ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-06-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-11-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Indiana University Bloomington
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linked to:
Indiana University
Reed College ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard University
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ University of Pennsylvania ⓘ University of Virginia ⓘ |
| familyName | Hymes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
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ethnography of communication ⓘ ethnopoetics ⓘ folklore studies ⓘ linguistics ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Dell ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
anthropological linguistics
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linguistic anthropology ⓘ |
| influenced |
linguistic anthropology as a discipline
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sociolinguistics as a discipline ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advancing sociolinguistics
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contributions to ethnopoetics ⓘ developing the SPEAKING model of communicative events ⓘ founding the field of ethnography of communication ⓘ work on communicative competence ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Anthropological Association
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Linguistic Society of America ⓘ |
| name | Dell Hathaway Hymes ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality
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Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach ⓘ Language in Culture and Society ⓘ Toward Ethnographies of Communication ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Portland, Oregon, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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linked to:
Charlottesville, Virginia
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| placeOfDeath |
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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linked to:
Charlottesville, Virginia
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| positionHeld |
Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dell Hathaway Hymes Description of subject: Dell Hathaway Hymes was an influential American linguist, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for founding the field of ethnography of communication and advancing sociolinguistics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.