Jonathan I. Coddington
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Jonathan I. Coddington is an American arachnologist and biodiversity scientist known for his research on spider systematics and his leadership roles at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan I. Coddington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8353928 — 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: Jonathan I. Coddington Context triple: [Coddington, hasNotableBearer, Jonathan I. Coddington]
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A.
Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
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B.
Stephen K. Robinson
Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
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C.
Richard W. Smith
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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D.
Michael J. Weithorn
Michael J. Weithorn is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and working on several sitcoms, including "Ned and Stacey" and "The King of Queens."
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E.
Edward J. Sparling
Edward J. Sparling was an American educator and university administrator best known as the founding president of Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he championed social justice and inclusive admissions policies.
- 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: Jonathan I. Coddington Target entity description: Jonathan I. Coddington is an American arachnologist and biodiversity scientist known for his research on spider systematics and his leadership roles at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
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A.
Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
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B.
Stephen K. Robinson
Stephen K. Robinson is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and conducted spacewalks to help assemble and repair the International Space Station.
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C.
Richard W. Smith
Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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D.
Michael J. Weithorn
Michael J. Weithorn is an American television writer and producer best known for creating and working on several sitcoms, including "Ned and Stacey" and "The King of Queens."
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E.
Edward J. Sparling
Edward J. Sparling was an American educator and university administrator best known as the founding president of Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he championed social justice and inclusive admissions policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American scientist
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arachnologist ⓘ biodiversity scientist ⓘ living person ⓘ |
| affiliation |
National Museum of Natural History
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Smithsonian Institution ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
National Museum of Natural History
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Smithsonian Institution ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
arachnology
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biodiversity ⓘ spider systematics ⓘ systematics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
Araneae
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linked to:
Arachnida
biodiversity assessment ⓘ phylogenetics ⓘ spiders ⓘ systematic biology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
arachnid taxonomy
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biodiversity informatics ⓘ museum leadership ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership roles at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History
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research on spider systematics ⓘ |
| notableWork |
publications on biodiversity theory
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publications on spider phylogeny ⓘ |
| occupation |
arachnologist
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biodiversity scientist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
museum administrator
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research scientist ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Jonathan I. Coddington Description of subject: Jonathan I. Coddington is an American arachnologist and biodiversity scientist known for his research on spider systematics and his leadership roles at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.