Richard Linton
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Richard Linton is an American academic administrator and food science scholar who serves as the president of Kansas State University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Linton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5813952 — 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: Richard Linton Context triple: [Kansas State University, president, Richard Linton]
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A.
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
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B.
Herbert Blumer
Herbert Blumer was an American sociologist best known for coining the term "symbolic interactionism" and significantly shaping the Chicago School of sociology.
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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.
Robert H. Lowie
Robert H. Lowie was a prominent early 20th-century American anthropologist known for his influential studies of Native American cultures and his contributions to cultural anthropology theory.
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E.
Robert Nisbet
Robert Nisbet was a 20th-century American sociologist and conservative social theorist known for his critiques of modern individualism and the erosion of traditional communities and intermediate institutions.
- 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: Richard Linton Target entity description: Richard Linton is an American academic administrator and food science scholar who serves as the president of Kansas State University.
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A.
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
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B.
Herbert Blumer
Herbert Blumer was an American sociologist best known for coining the term "symbolic interactionism" and significantly shaping the Chicago School of sociology.
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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.
Robert H. Lowie
Robert H. Lowie was a prominent early 20th-century American anthropologist known for his influential studies of Native American cultures and his contributions to cultural anthropology theory.
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E.
Robert Nisbet
Robert Nisbet was a 20th-century American sociologist and conservative social theorist known for his critiques of modern individualism and the erosion of traditional communities and intermediate institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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food scientist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
North Carolina State University
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Virginia Tech ⓘ |
| employer |
Kansas State University
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North Carolina State University ⓘ Ohio State University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
food safety
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food science ⓘ microbial food safety ⓘ post-harvest food processing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
PhD in food science
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bachelor's degree in biology ⓘ master's degree in food science ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Society for Microbiology
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Institute of Food Technologists ⓘ |
| notableRole | land-grant university president ⓘ |
| notableWork | research on controlling foodborne pathogens in food processing environments ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
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food science scholar ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University
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department head of Food Science and Technology at Ohio State University ⓘ president of Kansas State University ⓘ |
| residence | Kansas ⓘ |
| workLocation | Manhattan, Kansas ⓘ |
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: Richard Linton Description of subject: Richard Linton is an American academic administrator and food science scholar who serves as the president of Kansas State University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.