Harry
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Harry is the given name of Harry Emerson Fosdick, a prominent early 20th-century American pastor and liberal Protestant theologian.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9252927 — 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: Harry Context triple: [Harry Emerson Fosdick, givenName, Harry]
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Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States who led the country through the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
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B.
Harry
Harry is the given first name of the famed American singer and actor Bing Crosby.
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C.
Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry Augustus Garfield, an American lawyer, academic, and public official who served as the first head of the U.S. Fuel Administration during World War I.
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D.
Harry
Harry is the given name of the famed American baseball broadcaster Harry Caray, known for his exuberant announcing style and long association with the Chicago Cubs.
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E.
Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry Nyquist, a pioneering engineer and physicist known for foundational contributions to information theory and telecommunications.
- 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: Harry Target entity description: Harry is the given name of Harry Emerson Fosdick, a prominent early 20th-century American pastor and liberal Protestant theologian.
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Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry F. Byrd Sr., a prominent 20th-century American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Virginia.
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B.
Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry Nilsson, the influential American singer-songwriter known for hits like "Without You" and "Everybody's Talkin'."
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C.
Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States who led the country through the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
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D.
Harry
Harry is the given first name of the famed American singer and actor Bing Crosby.
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E.
Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry Nyquist, a pioneering engineer and physicist known for foundational contributions to information theory and telecommunications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian theologian
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human ⓘ pastor ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Bronxville, New York ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1878-05-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-10-05 ⓘ |
| denomination |
Baptist
ⓘ
Presbyterian ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Colgate University
ⓘ
Columbia University ⓘ Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York ⓘ
linked to:
Union Theological Seminary
|
| employer |
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Union Theological Seminary
|
| familyName | Fosdick ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biblical interpretation
ⓘ
homiletics ⓘ practical theology ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry ⓘ |
| hasPart |
sermon "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"
ⓘ
linked to:
Shall the Fundamentalists Win?
|
| influenced | mainline Protestantism in the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential preaching at Riverside Church
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liberal Protestant theology ⓘ opposition to fundamentalism in American Protestantism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | liberal Protestantism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Guide to Understanding the Bible
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The Meaning of Faith ⓘ The Meaning of Prayer ⓘ The Modern Use of the Bible ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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pastor ⓘ preacher ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Buffalo, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Buffalo
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| placeOfDeath | Bronxville, New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founding pastor of Riverside Church in New York City
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pastor of First Presbyterian Church in New York City ⓘ pastor of Park Avenue Baptist Church in New York City ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Florence Allen Whitney ⓘ |
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: Harry Description of subject: Harry is the given name of Harry Emerson Fosdick, a prominent early 20th-century American pastor and liberal Protestant theologian.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.