president of the Linguistic Society of America
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The president of the Linguistic Society of America is the elected head of a major professional organization dedicated to advancing the scientific study of language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| president of the Linguistic Society of America canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14295762 — 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: president of the Linguistic Society of America Context triple: [Leonard Bloomfield, positionHeld, president of the Linguistic Society of America]
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A.
linguist Margaret L. Press
Margaret L. Press is a linguist known for her fieldwork and documentation of Indigenous languages of North America, including the Chemehuevi language.
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B.
linguist D. L. R. Lorimer
D. L. R. Lorimer was a British linguist and philologist known for his pioneering descriptive and comparative work on lesser-studied languages of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions.
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C.
linguist John O. Rankin
John O. Rankin is a linguist known for his documentation and analysis of the Unami language, a dialect of the Lenape (Delaware) Native American language.
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D.
William Labov
William Labov is an American linguist regarded as a founder of modern sociolinguistics, known for his influential empirical studies of language variation and change in English.
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E.
linguist Lionel Bender
Lionel Bender was an American linguist renowned for his work on African languages, particularly in the classification and description of Nilo-Saharan and related language families.
- 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: president of the Linguistic Society of America Target entity description: The president of the Linguistic Society of America is the elected head of a major professional organization dedicated to advancing the scientific study of language.
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A.
linguist Margaret L. Press
Margaret L. Press is a linguist known for her fieldwork and documentation of Indigenous languages of North America, including the Chemehuevi language.
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B.
linguist D. L. R. Lorimer
D. L. R. Lorimer was a British linguist and philologist known for his pioneering descriptive and comparative work on lesser-studied languages of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions.
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C.
linguist John O. Rankin
John O. Rankin is a linguist known for his documentation and analysis of the Unami language, a dialect of the Lenape (Delaware) Native American language.
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D.
William Labov
William Labov is an American linguist regarded as a founder of modern sociolinguistics, known for his influential empirical studies of language variation and change in English.
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E.
linguist Lionel Bender
Lionel Bender was an American linguist renowned for his work on African languages, particularly in the classification and description of Nilo-Saharan and related language families.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.