Tony Judt
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Tony Judt was a British historian and public intellectual best known for his influential works on European history, memory, and politics, including the acclaimed book "Postwar."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tony Judt canonical | 2 |
| Tony Robert Judt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7108714 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Judt Context triple: [Hannah Arendt Prize, hasNotableLaureate, Tony Judt]
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A.
Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, political writer, and commentator renowned for his analyses of contemporary European history, free speech, and liberal democracy.
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B.
Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson is a British historian and essayist known for his influential Marxist analyses of Western society, politics, and intellectual history, particularly through his long association with the New Left Review.
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C.
Noel Barber
Noel Barber was a British journalist and novelist known for his adventurous reporting and bestselling historical romances, often drawing on his experiences during World War II.
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D.
Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin was a 20th-century political philosopher and historian of ideas best known for his writings on liberalism, value pluralism, and the concept of negative and positive liberty.
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E.
Anthony Julius
Anthony Julius is a British solicitor and academic best known for representing Princess Diana in her divorce and for his writings on law, antisemitism, and literary criticism.
- 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: Tony Judt Target entity description: Tony Judt was a British historian and public intellectual best known for his influential works on European history, memory, and politics, including the acclaimed book "Postwar."
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A.
Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, political writer, and commentator renowned for his analyses of contemporary European history, free speech, and liberal democracy.
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B.
Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson is a British historian and essayist known for his influential Marxist analyses of Western society, politics, and intellectual history, particularly through his long association with the New Left Review.
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C.
Noel Barber
Noel Barber was a British journalist and novelist known for his adventurous reporting and bestselling historical romances, often drawing on his experiences during World War II.
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D.
Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin was a 20th-century political philosopher and historian of ideas best known for his writings on liberalism, value pluralism, and the concept of negative and positive liberty.
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E.
Anthony Julius
Anthony Julius is a British solicitor and academic best known for representing Princess Diana in her divorce and for his writings on law, antisemitism, and literary criticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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historian ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in history ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-01-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-08-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
King's College, Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
King’s College, Cambridge
École Normale Supérieure ⓘ
linked to:
École Normale (Paris)
|
| employer | New York University ⓘ |
| familyName | Judt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
European history
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Holocaust studies ⓘ Jewish history ⓘ intellectual history ⓘ modern European politics ⓘ political history ⓘ |
| fullName |
Tony Robert Judt
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linked to:
Tony Judt
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| genre |
historical non-fiction
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political essay ⓘ |
| givenName | Tony ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comprehensive history of postwar Europe
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essays on memory and the politics of the twentieth century ⓘ public commentary on European and American politics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | social democracy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ill Fares the Land
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Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944–1956 ⓘ Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 ⓘ Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century ⓘ The Burden of Responsibility ⓘ Thinking the Twentieth Century ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University
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Professor of European Studies at New York University ⓘ |
| religion | secular Jew ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
European integration
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Zionism ⓘ the Holocaust ⓘ
linked to:
Holocaust
welfare state ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
The New Republic
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The New York Review of Books ⓘ The New York Times ⓘ |
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Referenced by (3)
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