Polidoro
E201277
Polidoro is an Italian surname most notably associated with Massimo Polidoro, a writer, psychologist, and prominent skeptic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polidoro canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1796504 — 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: Polidoro Context triple: [Massimo Polidoro, familyName, Polidoro]
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A.
Ippolito
Ippolito is the birth name of Pope Clement VIII, the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1592 to 1605.
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B.
Alessandro
Alessandro is the Italian form of the given name Alexander, commonly used in Italy and among Italian-speaking communities.
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C.
Giuliano
Giuliano is an Italian given name, equivalent to Julian, commonly used for males in Italian-speaking regions.
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D.
Giulio
Giulio is the given name of Giulio Douhet, an influential early 20th-century Italian air power theorist and general.
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E.
Papaleo
Papaleo is the Italian surname of legendary American featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep, born Guglielmo Papaleo.
- 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: Polidoro Target entity description: Polidoro is an Italian surname most notably associated with Massimo Polidoro, a writer, psychologist, and prominent skeptic.
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A.
Ippolito
Ippolito is the birth name of Pope Clement VIII, the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1592 to 1605.
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B.
Alessandro
Alessandro is the Italian form of the given name Alexander, commonly used in Italy and among Italian-speaking communities.
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C.
Giuliano
Giuliano is an Italian given name, equivalent to Julian, commonly used for males in Italian-speaking regions.
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D.
Giulio
Giulio is the given name of Giulio Douhet, an influential early 20th-century Italian air power theorist and general.
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E.
Papaleo
Papaleo is the Italian surname of legendary American featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep, born Guglielmo Papaleo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian-language surname
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| familyName | Polidoro ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
psychology
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science communication ⓘ scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| givenName | Massimo ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Massimo Polidoro ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Polidoro ⓘ |
| knownFor |
investigation of paranormal claims
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popular science writing ⓘ work in scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Italian ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian ⓘ |
| occupation |
psychologist
ⓘ
skeptic ⓘ writer ⓘ |
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: Polidoro Description of subject: Polidoro is an Italian surname most notably associated with Massimo Polidoro, a writer, psychologist, and prominent skeptic.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.