Peter Garnsey
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Peter Garnsey is a prominent historian of the ancient world, particularly known for his influential scholarship on the social, economic, and legal history of the Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Garnsey canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2316843 — 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: Peter Garnsey Context triple: [Richard Saller, coAuthorWith, Peter Garnsey]
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A.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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B.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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C.
Peter Savage
Peter Savage was an author whose work served as the basis for the acclaimed boxing film "Raging Bull."
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D.
Graeme Revell
Graeme Revell is a New Zealand-born composer best known for his atmospheric film scores across genres including horror, action, and science fiction.
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E.
David Horsey
David Horsey is an American political cartoonist and commentator renowned for his incisive editorial cartoons and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning work.
- 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: Peter Garnsey Target entity description: Peter Garnsey is a prominent historian of the ancient world, particularly known for his influential scholarship on the social, economic, and legal history of the Roman Empire.
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A.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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B.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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C.
Peter Savage
Peter Savage was an author whose work served as the basis for the acclaimed boxing film "Raging Bull."
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D.
Graeme Revell
Graeme Revell is a New Zealand-born composer best known for his atmospheric film scores across genres including horror, action, and science fiction.
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E.
David Horsey
David Horsey is an American political cartoonist and commentator renowned for his incisive editorial cartoons and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
historian ⓘ person ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
Ancient history
ⓘ
Classics ⓘ
linked to:
Classical antiquity
|
| academicTitle | Professor emeritus ⓘ |
| affiliation | Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| areaOfResearch |
Christianity in the Roman Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
late Roman Christianity
Roman economy ⓘ Roman law ⓘ Roman social structure ⓘ food supply in the ancient Mediterranean ⓘ slavery in antiquity ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Caroline Humfress
ⓘ
Dominic Rathbone ⓘ Richard Saller ⓘ
linked to:
Richard P. Saller
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Jesus College, Cambridge
ⓘ
University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| employer |
University of Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| fieldOfWork |
Roman history
ⓘ
ancient history ⓘ economic history ⓘ legal history ⓘ social history ⓘ |
| genre |
historical writing
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| influenced |
study of Roman legal history
ⓘ
study of Roman social history ⓘ study of the ancient Mediterranean economy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Jesus College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| name | Peter Garnsey ⓘ |
| notableFor |
scholarship on the Roman Empire
ⓘ
studies of food, famine, and the grain supply in antiquity ⓘ studies of slavery in the ancient world ⓘ studies of social and legal privilege in the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
ⓘ
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine ⓘ Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire ⓘ The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
CAMBRIDGE
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Peter Garnsey Description of subject: Peter Garnsey is a prominent historian of the ancient world, particularly known for his influential scholarship on the social, economic, and legal history of the Roman Empire.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.