Thayer Scudder
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Thayer Scudder is an American anthropologist and leading expert on the social and environmental impacts of large dam projects and resettlement programs worldwide.
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| Thayer Scudder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thayer Scudder Context triple: [Scudder, hasNotableBearer, Thayer Scudder]
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Frank Sanborn
Frank Sanborn was a 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalist movement and figures such as John Brown and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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B.
Robert F. Shugrue
Robert F. Shugrue is a film editor best known for his work on the science fiction movie "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock."
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C.
Jervis Langdon
Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
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D.
Montgomery Brewster
Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
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E.
Ambrose Hilliard
Ambrose Hilliard is a fictional aging actor in the British World War II film "Their Finest," whose career and ego are challenged as he participates in making wartime propaganda movies.
- 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: Thayer Scudder Target entity description: Thayer Scudder is an American anthropologist and leading expert on the social and environmental impacts of large dam projects and resettlement programs worldwide.
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A.
Frank Sanborn
Frank Sanborn was a 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalist movement and figures such as John Brown and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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B.
Robert F. Shugrue
Robert F. Shugrue is a film editor best known for his work on the science fiction movie "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock."
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C.
Jervis Langdon
Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
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D.
Montgomery Brewster
Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
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E.
Ambrose Hilliard
Ambrose Hilliard is a fictional aging actor in the British World War II film "Their Finest," whose career and ego are challenged as he participates in making wartime propaganda movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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human ⓘ |
| advised |
World Bank on resettlement policies
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international development agencies on dam-related resettlement ⓘ |
| advocates |
comprehensive social and environmental impact assessment for dams
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stronger protections for displaced communities ⓘ |
| contributedTo | World Commission on Dams final report NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
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development anthropology ⓘ environmental impacts of dams ⓘ resettlement studies ⓘ river basin development ⓘ social impacts of dams ⓘ |
| genre | academic writing ⓘ |
| hasAcademicApproach |
comparative case studies of resettlement
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longitudinal field research ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | critical evaluation of large dam benefits and costs ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
Africa
NERFINISHED
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Southern Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Zambezi River Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
consultant on large dam projects
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expert witness on resettlement impacts ⓘ |
| influenced |
international standards on involuntary resettlement
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social safeguard policies for large infrastructure projects ⓘ |
| knownFor |
long-term study of the Gwembe Tonga people
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research on involuntary resettlement ⓘ research on social impacts of large dam projects ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | World Commission on Dams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Development-induced Displacement and Resettlement
NERFINISHED
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Resettlement and Development: The Gwembe Tonga under the Kariba Dam NERFINISHED ⓘ The Future of Large Dams: Dealing with Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs NERFINISHED ⓘ The River Basin in History and Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | professor of anthropology ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Anthropology at California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
adaptive strategies of displaced populations
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development-induced displacement ⓘ involuntary resettlement policy ⓘ livelihood restoration after displacement ⓘ long-term impacts of dam construction on local communities ⓘ |
| studied |
Gwembe Tonga people of Zambia
NERFINISHED
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communities affected by large dams worldwide ⓘ communities displaced by the Kariba Dam ⓘ |
| workLocation | Pasadena, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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