E. Dana Durand
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E. Dana Durand was an American economist and statistician who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau in the early 20th century.
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| E. Dana Durand canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8468080 — 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: E. Dana Durand Context triple: [1910 United States Census, headOfCensusBureau, E. Dana Durand]
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Nancy Eldredge
Nancy Eldredge is the central character in Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "Where Are the Children?", a woman haunted by a tragic past and thrust into a new nightmare when her children mysteriously disappear.
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Delos A. Blodgett
Delos A. Blodgett was a 19th-century American lumber baron and philanthropist from Michigan, known for his significant role in the region’s timber industry and civic development.
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C.
Eliot Lindauer
Eliot Lindauer is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Lindauer surname.
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Leslie Urdang
Leslie Urdang is an American theater and film producer known for co-founding New York's Off-Broadway theater company the New Group and producing numerous acclaimed stage and screen projects.
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E.
Merritt Butrick
Merritt Butrick was an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Square Pegs" and as David Marcus in the "Star Trek" film franchise.
- 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: E. Dana Durand Target entity description: E. Dana Durand was an American economist and statistician who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau in the early 20th century.
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A.
Nancy Eldredge
Nancy Eldredge is the central character in Mary Higgins Clark’s suspense novel "Where Are the Children?", a woman haunted by a tragic past and thrust into a new nightmare when her children mysteriously disappear.
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B.
Delos A. Blodgett
Delos A. Blodgett was a 19th-century American lumber baron and philanthropist from Michigan, known for his significant role in the region’s timber industry and civic development.
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C.
Eliot Lindauer
Eliot Lindauer is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Lindauer surname.
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D.
Leslie Urdang
Leslie Urdang is an American theater and film producer known for co-founding New York's Off-Broadway theater company the New Group and producing numerous acclaimed stage and screen projects.
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E.
Merritt Butrick
Merritt Butrick was an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Square Pegs" and as David Marcus in the "Star Trek" film franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economist
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human ⓘ statistician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | William Howard Taft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1870-01-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1960-02-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Humboldt University of Berlin
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Berlin
University of Chicago ⓘ University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ⓘ
Stanford University ⓘ United States Census Bureau NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Department of Commerce and Labor NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ University of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Durand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
demography
ⓘ
economics ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Ezekiel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Economic Association
NERFINISHED
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American Statistical Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | E. Dana Durand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing the Thirteenth Census of the United States (1910) ⓘ |
| notableWork | administration of the 1910 United States Census ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
ⓘ
statistician ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Durand, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Durand, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Director of the United States Census Bureau ⓘ |
| residence |
Durand, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timeInOfficeEnd | 1912 ⓘ |
| timeInOfficeStart | 1909 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chicago, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Minneapolis, Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: E. Dana Durand Description of subject: E. Dana Durand was an American economist and statistician who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau in the early 20th century.
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