Bernard Comrie
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Bernard Comrie is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in language typology, universals, and the study of tense and aspect across languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernard Comrie canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2254231 — 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: Bernard Comrie Context triple: [Joseph Greenberg, influencedScholar, Bernard Comrie]
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A.
Reginald Bevins
Reginald Bevins was a British Conservative politician who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century, notably in Harold Macmillan’s government.
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B.
Bernard Coard
Bernard Coard is a Grenadian politician and former Marxist leader best known for his key role in the 1979–1983 Grenadian Revolution and the internal power struggle that led to the collapse of the revolutionary government.
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C.
Ernest Chambers
Ernest Chambers is a longtime Nebraska state senator and civil rights activist known for his outspoken advocacy on social justice, police reform, and the rights of marginalized communities.
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D.
Eric Gairy
Eric Gairy was a Grenadian politician and trade union leader who served as the country’s first prime minister and was later overthrown in a 1979 coup.
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E.
Cecil Reed
Cecil Reed was a party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which for the first time held that laws discriminating on the basis of sex violated the Equal Protection Clause.
- 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: Bernard Comrie Target entity description: Bernard Comrie is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in language typology, universals, and the study of tense and aspect across languages.
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A.
Reginald Bevins
Reginald Bevins was a British Conservative politician who held several ministerial posts in the mid-20th century, notably in Harold Macmillan’s government.
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B.
Bernard Coard
Bernard Coard is a Grenadian politician and former Marxist leader best known for his key role in the 1979–1983 Grenadian Revolution and the internal power struggle that led to the collapse of the revolutionary government.
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C.
Ernest Chambers
Ernest Chambers is a longtime Nebraska state senator and civil rights activist known for his outspoken advocacy on social justice, police reform, and the rights of marginalized communities.
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D.
Eric Gairy
Eric Gairy was a Grenadian politician and trade union leader who served as the country’s first prime minister and was later overthrown in a 1979 coup.
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E.
Cecil Reed
Cecil Reed was a party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which for the first time held that laws discriminating on the basis of sex violated the Equal Protection Clause.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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linguist ⓘ |
| almaMater |
University of Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge University
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| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-05-23 ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTopic | aspects of Russian syntax ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge University
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| employer |
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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University of California, Santa Barbara ⓘ University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
University of Southern California ⓘ |
| familyName | Comrie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
language typology
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linguistic universals ⓘ linguistics ⓘ morphology ⓘ syntax ⓘ tense and aspect ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | John Lyons ⓘ |
| hasEdited |
The Languages of the Soviet Union
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The World’s Major Languages ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comparative syntax
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cross-linguistic study of tense and aspect ⓘ research on linguistic universals ⓘ work on language typology ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Linguistic Society of America ⓘ |
| name | Bernard Comrie ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
cross-linguistic tense-aspect categories
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typological markedness ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aspect
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology ⓘ Tense ⓘ The Atlas of Languages ⓘ The Languages of the Soviet Union ⓘ The Major Languages of Western Europe ⓘ |
| occupation | university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sunderland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
agreement systems
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case marking ⓘ cross-linguistic comparison ⓘ grammatical categories ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Bernard Comrie Description of subject: Bernard Comrie is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in language typology, universals, and the study of tense and aspect across languages.
Referenced by (8)
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