Robert J. Sampson
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Robert J. Sampson is an American sociologist and criminologist known for his influential research on neighborhood effects, social disorder, and crime, which has challenged and refined theories such as broken windows.
All labels observed (1)
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| Robert J. Sampson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10227273 — 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: Robert J. Sampson Context triple: [Broken windows theory, hasCritic, Robert J. Sampson]
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William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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Ronald J. Williams
Ronald J. Williams is a computer scientist known for his influential contributions to neural networks and machine learning, particularly in the development of backpropagation and reinforcement learning algorithms.
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Noland B. Harmon
Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Dennis C. Brown
Dennis C. Brown is a television and film composer best known for scoring the long-running animated series "South Park."
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E.
David M. Walker
David M. Walker was a United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
- 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: Robert J. Sampson Target entity description: Robert J. Sampson is an American sociologist and criminologist known for his influential research on neighborhood effects, social disorder, and crime, which has challenged and refined theories such as broken windows.
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A.
William R. Wilkerson
William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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B.
Ronald J. Williams
Ronald J. Williams is a computer scientist known for his influential contributions to neural networks and machine learning, particularly in the development of backpropagation and reinforcement learning algorithms.
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C.
Noland B. Harmon
Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Dennis C. Brown
Dennis C. Brown is a television and film composer best known for scoring the long-running animated series "South Park."
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E.
David M. Walker
David M. Walker was a United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminologist
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person ⓘ sociologist ⓘ |
| authorOf | Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edwin H. Sutherland Award of the American Society of Criminology
NERFINISHED
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Stockholm Prize in Criminology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
State University of New York at Albany
NERFINISHED
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University at Buffalo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
community-level social processes
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crime ⓘ criminology ⓘ life-course criminology ⓘ neighborhood effects ⓘ social disorder ⓘ sociology ⓘ urban sociology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in sociology ⓘ |
| hasInfluencedTheory |
development of neighborhood effects frameworks in sociology
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refinement of broken windows theory ⓘ |
| hasWritten | Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
policy debates on urban crime and disorder
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research on neighborhood-level determinants of crime ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainWorkTopic |
collective efficacy and crime
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neighborhood effects in Chicago ⓘ spatial inequality ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Society of Criminology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableConcept | collective efficacy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critiques of broken windows theory
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longitudinal studies of crime and the life course ⓘ research on collective efficacy ⓘ research on neighborhood effects on crime ⓘ research on social disorder ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of the Department of Sociology at Harvard University
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Director of the Social Sciences Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University ⓘ President of the American Society of Criminology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
how neighborhood context shapes individual outcomes
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life-course patterns of offending and desistance ⓘ relationship between social disorder and crime ⓘ |
| theoryDeveloped | collective efficacy theory of crime ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Robert J. Sampson Description of subject: Robert J. Sampson is an American sociologist and criminologist known for his influential research on neighborhood effects, social disorder, and crime, which has challenged and refined theories such as broken windows.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Broken windows theory