Eric Lofgren
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Eric Lofgren is an epidemiologist known for using World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood incident as a model to study the spread of infectious diseases and human behavior during epidemics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Lofgren canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11542598 — 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: Eric Lofgren Context triple: [Corrupted Blood incident, hasResearcher, Eric Lofgren]
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A.
Michael Krieger
Michael Krieger is a fictional character appearing in the story of "Watch Over Me."
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B.
Ken Koblun
Ken Koblun is a Canadian bassist best known for his early involvement with the influential 1960s rock band Buffalo Springfield.
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C.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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D.
Dan Rydell
Dan Rydell is a charismatic, quick-witted sports anchor and one of the central protagonists on the television series "Sports Night."
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E.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
- 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: Eric Lofgren Target entity description: Eric Lofgren is an epidemiologist known for using World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood incident as a model to study the spread of infectious diseases and human behavior during epidemics.
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A.
Michael Krieger
Michael Krieger is a fictional character appearing in the story of "Watch Over Me."
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B.
Ken Koblun
Ken Koblun is a Canadian bassist best known for his early involvement with the influential 1960s rock band Buffalo Springfield.
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C.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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D.
Dan Rydell
Dan Rydell is a charismatic, quick-witted sports anchor and one of the central protagonists on the television series "Sports Night."
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E.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epidemiologist
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person ⓘ |
| analyzed |
human movement patterns in virtual worlds
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player behavior during virtual disease outbreaks ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
design of public health interventions
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understanding real-world epidemic dynamics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork |
computational epidemiology
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healthcare-associated infections ⓘ infectious disease epidemiology ⓘ mathematical modeling of infectious diseases ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
epidemiological modeling
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health policy related to infectious diseases ⓘ simulation of disease outbreaks ⓘ statistical analysis of infectious disease data ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on human behavior during epidemics
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using the World of Warcraft Corrupted Blood incident as a model for epidemic spread ⓘ |
| occupation | epidemiologist ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
antimicrobial resistance
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behavioral responses to outbreaks ⓘ emerging infectious diseases ⓘ infection control in healthcare settings ⓘ mathematical models of disease transmission ⓘ pandemic preparedness ⓘ |
| studied |
World of Warcraft Corrupted Blood incident
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linked to:
Corrupted Blood incident
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| studies |
effectiveness of infection prevention strategies
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impact of human behavior on disease spread ⓘ transmission dynamics of pathogens ⓘ |
| usedModelSystem |
World of Warcraft
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online game environments ⓘ virtual epidemics ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eric Lofgren Description of subject: Eric Lofgren is an epidemiologist known for using World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood incident as a model to study the spread of infectious diseases and human behavior during epidemics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.