Howard
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Howard is the middle name of Robert H. Grubbs, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his work on olefin metathesis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9018693 — 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: Howard Context triple: [Robert H. Grubbs, middleName, Howard]
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Howard
Howard is the given name of the influential American film director, producer, and screenwriter Howard Hawks.
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Howard
Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
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Howard
Howard is the middle name of William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Howard
Howard is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "high guardian" or "noble watchman," borne by numerous notable figures across politics, arts, and academia.
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Howard
Howard is one of Sethe’s sons in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," a child whose life is shaped by the trauma and legacy of slavery.
- 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: Howard Target entity description: Howard is the middle name of Robert H. Grubbs, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his work on olefin metathesis.
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Howard
Howard is the middle name of Edwin H. Armstrong, the pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio.
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Howard
Howard is the middle name of William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Howard
Howard is the given first name of Ward Cunningham, the American computer programmer best known for creating the first wiki.
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Howard
Howard is the given first name of Duane Allman, the influential American guitarist and co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band.
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Howard
Howard is a common English surname shared by numerous notable figures across entertainment, politics, and other fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Chemistry
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chemist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
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Arthur C. Cope Award ⓘ Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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University of Florida ⓘ |
| employer | California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| familyName | Grubbs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
catalysis
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organic chemistry ⓘ organometallic chemistry ⓘ |
| fullName |
Robert Howard Grubbs
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linked to:
Robert H. Grubbs
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| knownFor | olefin metathesis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| middleName | Howard ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Grubbs catalyst
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applications of olefin metathesis in polymer chemistry ⓘ ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalysts ⓘ |
| occupation | chemist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry ⓘ |
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: Howard Description of subject: Howard is the middle name of Robert H. Grubbs, the Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his work on olefin metathesis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Howard