Ben Goldacre
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Ben Goldacre is a British physician, academic, and science writer best known for his work critiquing bad science and promoting evidence-based medicine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ben Goldacre canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1641612 — 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: Ben Goldacre Context triple: [University of Bristol, hasNotableAlumni, Ben Goldacre]
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A.
Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart is a British mathematician and prolific popular science writer known for his engaging books and articles on mathematics and its applications.
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B.
David C. Acheson
David C. Acheson is an American lawyer and former government official who served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, and founder of *Skeptic* magazine, known for promoting scientific skepticism and critical thinking about paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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D.
Jim Al-Khalili
Jim Al-Khalili is a British-Iraqi theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster known for his popular science books and documentaries that make complex scientific ideas accessible to the public.
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E.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
- 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: Ben Goldacre Target entity description: Ben Goldacre is a British physician, academic, and science writer best known for his work critiquing bad science and promoting evidence-based medicine.
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A.
Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart is a British mathematician and prolific popular science writer known for his engaging books and articles on mathematics and its applications.
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B.
David C. Acheson
David C. Acheson is an American lawyer and former government official who served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, and founder of *Skeptic* magazine, known for promoting scientific skepticism and critical thinking about paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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D.
Jim Al-Khalili
Jim Al-Khalili is a British-Iraqi theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster known for his popular science books and documentaries that make complex scientific ideas accessible to the public.
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E.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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columnist ⓘ epidemiologist ⓘ human ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ physician ⓘ science writer ⓘ |
| areaOfActivism |
improving quality of medical research
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open data in clinical research ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
James Randi Educational Foundation award
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Sense About Science award ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| columnTitle | Bad Science ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Magdalen College, Oxford
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University College London ⓘ |
| employer | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Goldacre ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
clinical trials transparency
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epidemiology ⓘ evidence-based medicine ⓘ medical statistics ⓘ science communication ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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popular science ⓘ science journalism ⓘ |
| givenName | Ben ⓘ |
| hasRole | director of the Evidence-Based Medicine DataLab ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor | The Guardian ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
evidence-based medicine movement
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skepticism ⓘ |
| name | Ben Goldacre ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
campaigning for clinical trial transparency
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critiquing bad science ⓘ promoting evidence-based medicine ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Pharma
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Bad Science ⓘ I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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columnist ⓘ epidemiologist ⓘ journalist ⓘ physician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| workLocation | Oxford ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
pharmaceutical industry practices
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pseudoscience ⓘ statistics misuse in medicine ⓘ |
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: Ben Goldacre Description of subject: Ben Goldacre is a British physician, academic, and science writer best known for his work critiquing bad science and promoting evidence-based medicine.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.