Ogden Rood
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Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
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| Ogden Rood canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T448726 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Ogden Rood Context triple: [Neo-Impressionism, influencedBy, Ogden Rood]
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Lud Wray
Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
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Boston Corbett
Boston Corbett was a Union Army sergeant best known for fatally shooting John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
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Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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Samuel Gray
Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
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Samuel Nelson
Samuel Nelson was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1845 to 1872.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ogden Rood Target entity description: Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
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A.
Lud Wray
Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
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B.
Boston Corbett
Boston Corbett was a Union Army sergeant best known for fatally shooting John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Palmer Joss
Palmer Joss is a central character in Carl Sagan's science fiction novel "Contact," serving as a religious scholar and love interest who embodies the tension between faith and science.
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D.
Samuel Gray
Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
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E.
Samuel Nelson
Samuel Nelson was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1845 to 1872.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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color theorist ⓘ person ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
modern color science
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theoretical foundations of modern art movements ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Columbia University ⓘ |
| familyName | Rood ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
color theory
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optics ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| genre | scientific writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Ogden ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influenced |
Georges Seurat
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Neo-Impressionism ⓘ Paul Signac ⓘ Neo-Impressionism ⓘ
surface form:
Pointillism
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | 19th-century science ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
distinction between hue, luminosity, and purity in color
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optical color mixing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Modern Chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry
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papers on color perception ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| studies |
color perception
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optical effects in art ⓘ visual perception ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Ogden Rood Description of subject: Ogden Rood was a 19th-century American physicist and color theorist whose work on color perception and optical mixing significantly shaped modern art movements.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.