Michael Proffitt
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Michael Proffitt is a British lexicographer who serves as the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, overseeing its ongoing revision and development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Proffitt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2669218 — 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: Michael Proffitt Context triple: [Oxford English Dictionary, hasChiefEditor, Michael Proffitt]
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A.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Andrew D. Martin
Andrew D. Martin is an American political scientist and academic administrator who serves as the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
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D.
Jeffrey Paley
Jeffrey Paley is the son of longtime CBS chairman William S. Paley and a member of the prominent Paley media family.
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E.
Michael Laughlin
Michael Laughlin was an American film producer, screenwriter, and director known for his work on cult and independent films in the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Michael Proffitt Target entity description: Michael Proffitt is a British lexicographer who serves as the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, overseeing its ongoing revision and development.
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A.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Andrew D. Martin
Andrew D. Martin is an American political scientist and academic administrator who serves as the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
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D.
Jeffrey Paley
Jeffrey Paley is the son of longtime CBS chairman William S. Paley and a member of the prominent Paley media family.
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E.
Michael Laughlin
Michael Laughlin was an American film producer, screenwriter, and director known for his work on cult and independent films in the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editor
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lexicographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
English language
ⓘ
linked to:
English
lexicography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of the Oxford English Dictionary
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overseeing the ongoing revision of the Oxford English Dictionary ⓘ |
| notableWork | Oxford English Dictionary ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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lexicographer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary ⓘ |
| workLocation | 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: Michael Proffitt Description of subject: Michael Proffitt is a British lexicographer who serves as the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, overseeing its ongoing revision and development.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.