John Broome
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John Broome is a British philosopher and economist known for his influential work on ethics, rationality, and climate change.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Broome canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1528601 — 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: John Broome Context triple: [Nick Bostrom, doctoralAdvisor, John Broome]
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A.
Nicholas Beauman
Nicholas Beauman is a British editor and publisher known for championing and reissuing neglected literary works, particularly through the imprint Persephone Books.
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B.
George Boyne
George Boyne is a British academic and university leader who serves as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.
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C.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
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D.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
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E.
James Burrough
James Burrough was an 18th-century English architect and academic at the University of Cambridge, known for helping shape the university’s neoclassical architectural style.
- 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: John Broome Target entity description: John Broome is a British philosopher and economist known for his influential work on ethics, rationality, and climate change.
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A.
Nicholas Beauman
Nicholas Beauman is a British editor and publisher known for championing and reissuing neglected literary works, particularly through the imprint Persephone Books.
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B.
George Boyne
George Boyne is a British academic and university leader who serves as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.
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C.
Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton is a British computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages, web standards, and contributions to the development of ABC and early Python influences.
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D.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
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E.
James Burrough
James Burrough was an 18th-century English architect and academic at the University of Cambridge, known for helping shape the university’s neoclassical architectural style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ moral philosopher ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
economics
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philosophy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
University of London ⓘ |
| employer |
Birkbeck, University of London
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University of Oxford ⓘ University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
climate change economics
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climate ethics ⓘ decision theory ⓘ environmental philosophy ⓘ ethics ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ normative ethics ⓘ philosophy of economics ⓘ population ethics ⓘ practical reason ⓘ rationality ⓘ value theory ⓘ welfare economics ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
discounting in climate economics
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intergenerational justice ⓘ the aggregation of value across persons ⓘ the concept of fairness in distribution ⓘ the ethics of greenhouse gas emissions ⓘ the relationship between rationality and reasons ⓘ the structure of practical reasoning ⓘ |
| knownFor |
work on population ethics
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work on reasons and rationality ⓘ work on the ethics of climate change ⓘ work on the nature of value ⓘ work on weighing goods and lives ⓘ |
| memberOf | British Academy ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World
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Rationality Through Reasoning ⓘ Weighing Goods ⓘ Weighing Lives ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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researcher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford ⓘ |
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: John Broome Description of subject: John Broome is a British philosopher and economist known for his influential work on ethics, rationality, and climate change.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.