Carl Oglesby
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Carl Oglesby was an American writer, activist, and prominent leader of the 1960s New Left who became known for his articulate critiques of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carl Oglesby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7187860 — 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: Carl Oglesby Context triple: [Students for a Democratic Society, notableMember, Carl Oglesby]
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A.
Culbert Olson
Culbert Olson was a Democratic politician who served as the 29th governor of California from 1939 to 1943 and was known for his progressive and secular views.
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B.
Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker was an American actor best known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and drama during the 1950s and 1960s.
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C.
Fred Luddy
Fred Luddy is an American entrepreneur and software executive best known as the founder of the cloud-based enterprise software company ServiceNow.
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D.
John Gilleland
John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
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E.
Earl Jowitt
Earl Jowitt was the noble title held by William Jowitt, a prominent British Labour politician and Lord Chancellor in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Carl Oglesby Target entity description: Carl Oglesby was an American writer, activist, and prominent leader of the 1960s New Left who became known for his articulate critiques of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War.
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A.
Culbert Olson
Culbert Olson was a Democratic politician who served as the 29th governor of California from 1939 to 1943 and was known for his progressive and secular views.
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B.
Ralph Meeker
Ralph Meeker was an American actor best known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and drama during the 1950s and 1960s.
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C.
Fred Luddy
Fred Luddy is an American entrepreneur and software executive best known as the founder of the cloud-based enterprise software company ServiceNow.
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D.
John Gilleland
John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
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E.
Earl Jowitt
Earl Jowitt was the noble title held by William Jowitt, a prominent British Labour politician and Lord Chancellor in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Left leader
ⓘ
human ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1960s
ⓘ
1970s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-07-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-09-13 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | obituaries in major U.S. newspapers ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Kent State University
ⓘ
University of Akron ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Oglesby ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
antiwar activism
ⓘ
foreign policy analysis ⓘ political theory ⓘ |
| genre |
political commentary
ⓘ
political non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Carl ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Aaron Oglesby
ⓘ
Leah Oglesby ⓘ Luke Oglesby ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analysis of U.S. power elites
ⓘ
articulate speeches against the Vietnam War ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Students for a Democratic Society ⓘ |
| movement | New Left ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critiques of U.S. foreign policy
ⓘ
leadership in Students for a Democratic Society ⓘ opposition to the Vietnam War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ravens in the Storm
ⓘ
The Yankee and Cowboy War ⓘ |
| occupation |
political activist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | anti–Vietnam War movement ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Akron, Ohio, United States of America
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linked to:
Akron, Ohio, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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linked to:
Amherst, Massachusetts
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| politicalAlignment | New Left ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Students for a Democratic Society ⓘ |
| residence |
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
ⓘ
linked to:
Amherst, Massachusetts
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Beth Oglesby ⓘ |
| wrote |
Ravens in the Storm
ⓘ
The Yankee and Cowboy War ⓘ Who Killed JFK? ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Carl Oglesby Description of subject: Carl Oglesby was an American writer, activist, and prominent leader of the 1960s New Left who became known for his articulate critiques of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.