Harold Bloom
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Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harold Bloom canonical | 25 |
| Harold Bloom is a literary critic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T489756 — 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: Harold Bloom Context triple: [Harold, notableBearer, Harold Bloom]
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A.
Richard Ben-Veniste
Richard Ben-Veniste is an American lawyer and former Watergate prosecutor who served as a Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission.
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B.
Peter Gay
Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
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C.
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner was an American Presbyterian minister, novelist, and theologian known for his reflective Christian writings that blend memoir, fiction, and spiritual insight.
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D.
Louis Jacobs
Louis Jacobs was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the hospitality and food service company Delaware North.
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E.
Arthur David Olson
Arthur David Olson is a computer programmer best known for creating and long maintaining the IANA time zone database, a critical global resource for timekeeping in computing systems.
- 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: Harold Bloom Target entity description: Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
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A.
Richard Ben-Veniste
Richard Ben-Veniste is an American lawyer and former Watergate prosecutor who served as a Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission.
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B.
Peter Gay
Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
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C.
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner was an American Presbyterian minister, novelist, and theologian known for his reflective Christian writings that blend memoir, fiction, and spiritual insight.
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D.
Louis Jacobs
Louis Jacobs was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the hospitality and food service company Delaware North.
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E.
Arthur David Olson
Arthur David Olson is a computer programmer best known for creating and long maintaining the IANA time zone database, a critical global resource for timekeeping in computing systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
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: Harold Bloom Description of subject: Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Anxiety of influence
subject surface form:
Anxiety of influence
subject surface form:
Anxiety of influence
this entity surface form:
Harold Bloom is a literary critic