Lawrence Cremin
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Lawrence Cremin was an influential American educational historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for his work on the history of education in the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lawrence Cremin canonical | 3 |
| Lawrence Arthur Cremin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1060507 — 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: Lawrence Cremin Context triple: [Teachers College, Columbia University, hasNotableFaculty, Lawrence Cremin]
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John L. Friedman
John L. Friedman is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, including work on instabilities in rotating stars.
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George A. Bermann
George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
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Lawrence Bender
Lawrence Bender is an American film producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Quentin Tarantino on influential films such as "Pulp Fiction" and the "Kill Bill" series.
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Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
- 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: Lawrence Cremin Target entity description: Lawrence Cremin was an influential American educational historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for his work on the history of education in the United States.
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A.
John L. Friedman
John L. Friedman is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, including work on instabilities in rotating stars.
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B.
George A. Bermann
George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
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C.
Lawrence Bender
Lawrence Bender is an American film producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Quentin Tarantino on influential films such as "Pulp Fiction" and the "Kill Bill" series.
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D.
Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt was a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and speaker best known for his escape from the Sobibor extermination camp and his later efforts to document its history.
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E.
Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Lawrence Cremin Description of subject: Lawrence Cremin was an influential American educational historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author known for his work on the history of education in the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lawrence Cremin