Nathaniel Read Silver
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Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, writer, and founder of the data journalism website FiveThirtyEight, known for his influential election forecasting and analysis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nathaniel Read Silver canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5996463 — 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: Nathaniel Read Silver Context triple: [Nate Silver, birthName, Nathaniel Read Silver]
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A.
Nathaniel Motte
Nathaniel Motte is an American musician, producer, and member of the electronic music duo 3OH!3.
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B.
Nathaniel Parker
Nathaniel Parker is an English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in adaptations of classic literature and popular detective dramas.
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C.
Eliab Harvey
Eliab Harvey was an English naval officer and politician best known for commanding HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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D.
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an influential 18th-century British politician and merchant whose prominence and philanthropy led to institutions such as Holden Chapel being named in his honor.
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E.
Nathaniel Warren
Nathaniel Warren was a member of the prominent Warren family of early Plymouth Colony, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren.
- 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: Nathaniel Read Silver Target entity description: Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, writer, and founder of the data journalism website FiveThirtyEight, known for his influential election forecasting and analysis.
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A.
Nathaniel Motte
Nathaniel Motte is an American musician, producer, and member of the electronic music duo 3OH!3.
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B.
Nathaniel Parker
Nathaniel Parker is an English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in adaptations of classic literature and popular detective dramas.
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C.
Eliab Harvey
Eliab Harvey was an English naval officer and politician best known for commanding HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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D.
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an influential 18th-century British politician and merchant whose prominence and philanthropy led to institutions such as Holden Chapel being named in his honor.
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E.
Nathaniel Warren
Nathaniel Warren was a member of the prominent Warren family of early Plymouth Colony, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data journalism website
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data journalist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ poker player ⓘ statistician ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| author | Nathaniel Read Silver ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1978-01-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
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linked to:
East Lansing
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | FiveThirtyEight ⓘ |
| familyName | Silver ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
forecasting
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political science ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
economics
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politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| founded | FiveThirtyEight ⓘ |
| genre |
data journalism
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political analysis ⓘ |
| givenName | Nathaniel ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
election forecasting
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founding FiveThirtyEight ⓘ political analysis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Nate Silver ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
accurate prediction of 2008 U.S. presidential election state outcomes
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accurate prediction of 2012 U.S. presidential election state outcomes ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Signal and the Noise ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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poker player ⓘ statistician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| twitterAccount |
@NateSilver538
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linked to:
Nate Silver
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| website | https://fivethirtyeight.com/ ⓘ |
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: Nathaniel Read Silver Description of subject: Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, writer, and founder of the data journalism website FiveThirtyEight, known for his influential election forecasting and analysis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nathaniel Read Silver