David R. Mayhew
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David R. Mayhew is an American political scientist renowned for his influential work on the U.S. Congress and legislative behavior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David R. Mayhew canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13027086 — 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: David R. Mayhew Context triple: [Congress: The Electoral Connection, author, David R. Mayhew]
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A.
David Hoyle
David Hoyle is a senior Church of England cleric who serves as the Dean of Westminster, overseeing major national religious ceremonies at Westminster Abbey.
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B.
David Hoyle
David Hoyle is a British performance artist and comedian known for his avant-garde, confrontational style and his former drag persona The Divine David.
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C.
Gabriel Almond
Gabriel Almond was an influential American political scientist known for his work on comparative politics and political culture.
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D.
Russell J. Dalton
Russell J. Dalton is a political scientist known for his influential research on comparative politics, political culture, and citizen participation in advanced industrial democracies.
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E.
John Mair
John Mair was a Scottish philosopher and theologian of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known for his influential work in scholasticism and early modern political thought.
- 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: David R. Mayhew Target entity description: David R. Mayhew is an American political scientist renowned for his influential work on the U.S. Congress and legislative behavior.
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A.
David Hoyle
David Hoyle is a British performance artist and comedian known for his avant-garde, confrontational style and his former drag persona The Divine David.
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B.
David Hoyle
David Hoyle is a senior Church of England cleric who serves as the Dean of Westminster, overseeing major national religious ceremonies at Westminster Abbey.
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C.
Gabriel Almond
Gabriel Almond was an influential American political scientist known for his work on comparative politics and political culture.
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D.
Russell J. Dalton
Russell J. Dalton is a political scientist known for his influential research on comparative politics, political culture, and citizen participation in advanced industrial democracies.
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E.
John Mair
John Mair was a Scottish philosopher and theologian of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, known for his influential work in scholasticism and early modern political thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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author ⓘ political scientist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American politics
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U.S. Congress ⓘ
linked to:
United States Congress
legislative studies ⓘ political science ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Congress: The Electoral Connection
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linked to:
“Congress: The Electoral Connection”
Partisan Balance ⓘ
linked to:
Partisan Hearts and Minds
Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don’t Kill the Constitution ⓘ Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don’t Kill the U.S. Constitution ⓘ |
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: David R. Mayhew Description of subject: David R. Mayhew is an American political scientist renowned for his influential work on the U.S. Congress and legislative behavior.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.