Quentin Skinner
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Quentin Skinner is a prominent British intellectual historian and political theorist known for his influential work on the history of political thought and the development of the Cambridge School of contextualist interpretation.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2778657 — 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: Quentin Skinner Context triple: [Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, hasNotableHolder, Quentin Skinner]
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Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper was a prominent 20th-century British historian and Oxford professor best known for his works on early modern Europe and Nazi Germany, including his influential study "The Last Days of Hitler."
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Peter Gay
Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
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A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor was a prominent 20th-century British historian and broadcaster, known for his influential and often controversial works on European and diplomatic history.
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D.
F. W. Maitland
F. W. Maitland was a preeminent English legal historian whose pioneering work on medieval English law profoundly shaped the modern study of legal history.
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Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright is a prominent contemporary British philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, particularly on realism, anti-realism, and the nature of truth.
- 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: Quentin Skinner Target entity description: Quentin Skinner is a prominent British intellectual historian and political theorist known for his influential work on the history of political thought and the development of the Cambridge School of contextualist interpretation.
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A.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper was a prominent 20th-century British historian and Oxford professor best known for his works on early modern Europe and Nazi Germany, including his influential study "The Last Days of Hitler."
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B.
Peter Gay
Peter Gay was a German-born American historian and author best known for his influential works on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, and the history of psychoanalysis.
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C.
A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor was a prominent 20th-century British historian and broadcaster, known for his influential and often controversial works on European and diplomatic history.
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D.
F. W. Maitland
F. W. Maitland was a preeminent English legal historian whose pioneering work on medieval English law profoundly shaped the modern study of legal history.
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E.
Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright is a prominent contemporary British philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, particularly on realism, anti-realism, and the nature of truth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
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: Quentin Skinner Description of subject: Quentin Skinner is a prominent British intellectual historian and political theorist known for his influential work on the history of political thought and the development of the Cambridge School of contextualist interpretation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge
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hasNotableHolder
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Quentin Skinner
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