Mark Yudof
E421154
Mark Yudof is an American legal scholar and higher-education leader best known for serving as president of the University of California and the University of Minnesota.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark George Yudof | 1 |
| Mark Yudof canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4220711 — 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: Mark Yudof Context triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Mark Yudof]
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A.
Jack Snyder
Jack Snyder is a central fictional police detective character from the long-running American soap opera "As the World Turns."
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B.
Tod Leiweke
Tod Leiweke is an American sports executive known for leading and developing major professional franchises, including serving as CEO and part-owner of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken.
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C.
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber is a German conservative politician who served for many years as Minister-President of Bavaria and became a prominent national figure as the CDU/CSU candidate for chancellor in 2002.
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D.
Bob Gansler
Bob Gansler is an American soccer coach best known for leading the underdog U.S. national team at the 1990 World Cup and later achieving major success in Major League Soccer.
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E.
Tom Keene
Tom Keene was an American actor best known for his roles in Western films during the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Mark Yudof Target entity description: Mark Yudof is an American legal scholar and higher-education leader best known for serving as president of the University of California and the University of Minnesota.
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A.
Jack Snyder
Jack Snyder is a central fictional police detective character from the long-running American soap opera "As the World Turns."
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B.
Tod Leiweke
Tod Leiweke is an American sports executive known for leading and developing major professional franchises, including serving as CEO and part-owner of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken.
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C.
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber is a German conservative politician who served for many years as Minister-President of Bavaria and became a prominent national figure as the CDU/CSU candidate for chancellor in 2002.
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D.
Bob Gansler
Bob Gansler is an American soccer coach best known for leading the underdog U.S. national team at the 1990 World Cup and later achieving major success in Major League Soccer.
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E.
Tom Keene
Tom Keene was an American actor best known for his roles in Western films during the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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human ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | American higher education policy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Pennsylvania
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University of Pennsylvania Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
University of California
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linked to:
University of California system
University of Minnesota ⓘ University of Texas School of Law ⓘ University of Texas System ⓘ University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| familyName | Yudof ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional law
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education policy ⓘ higher education administration ⓘ |
| genre | legal scholarship ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor ⓘ |
| hasRole | higher-education leader ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American academic community ⓘ |
| name |
Mark George Yudof
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linked to:
Mark Yudof
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| notableFor |
leadership in American public higher education
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service as president of the University of California ⓘ service as president of the University of Minnesota ⓘ |
| occupation |
law professor
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legal scholar ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chancellor of the University of Texas System
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executive vice president and provost of the University of Texas at Austin ⓘ president of the University of California ⓘ president of the University of Minnesota ⓘ professor at the University of Texas School of Law ⓘ |
| residence |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Mark Yudof Description of subject: Mark Yudof is an American legal scholar and higher-education leader best known for serving as president of the University of California and the University of Minnesota.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mark Yudof