Posner
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Posner is a surname most prominently associated with American singer-songwriter and record producer Mike Posner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Posner canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7964756 — 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: Posner Context triple: [Mike Posner, familyName, Posner]
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A.
Judge Richard Posner
Judge Richard Posner is a prominent American jurist, legal scholar, and former federal appellate judge known for his influential work in law and economics and his long tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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B.
Kenneth Posner
Kenneth Posner is a prominent American theatrical lighting designer known for his work on numerous Broadway productions.
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C.
Palmore
Palmore is a surname that functions as a variant form of the more common family name Palmer.
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D.
Theodore Twombly
Theodore Twombly is the introspective, emotionally sensitive protagonist of the film "Her," who develops a complex romantic relationship with an advanced operating system.
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E.
Judge Hamilton
Judge Hamilton is a fictional judicial figure appearing in Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "All Around the Town."
- 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: Posner Target entity description: Posner is a surname most prominently associated with American singer-songwriter and record producer Mike Posner.
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A.
Judge Richard Posner
Judge Richard Posner is a prominent American jurist, legal scholar, and former federal appellate judge known for his influential work in law and economics and his long tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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B.
Kenneth Posner
Kenneth Posner is a prominent American theatrical lighting designer known for his work on numerous Broadway productions.
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C.
Palmore
Palmore is a surname that functions as a variant form of the more common family name Palmer.
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D.
Theodore Twombly
Theodore Twombly is the introspective, emotionally sensitive protagonist of the film "Her," who develops a complex romantic relationship with an advanced operating system.
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E.
Judge Hamilton
Judge Hamilton is a fictional judicial figure appearing in Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "All Around the Town."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
judge ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| derivedFrom | toponymic surname ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from the city of Posen (now Poznań, Poland) ⓘ |
| familyName |
Posner
ⓘ
Posner ⓘ Posner ⓘ Posner ⓘ Posner ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
ⓘ
hip hop ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Eric Posner
ⓘ
Gerald Posner ⓘ Mike Posner ⓘ Richard Posner ⓘ
linked to:
Judge Richard Posner
Tracy Posner ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
German
ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cooler than Me
ⓘ
I Took a Pill in Ibiza ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
judge ⓘ law professor ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Israel ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Posner Description of subject: Posner is a surname most prominently associated with American singer-songwriter and record producer Mike Posner.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.