Wade Davis
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Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and author known for his explorations of indigenous cultures and psychoactive plants.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wade Davis canonical | 4 |
| Wade Davis (ethnobotanist) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4609756 — 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: Wade Davis Context triple: [The Serpent and the Rainbow, basedOnAuthor, Wade Davis]
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A.
Timothy J. Mara
Timothy J. Mara is a member of the Mara family, the longtime owners of the NFL’s New York Giants franchise.
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B.
Michael Rivers
Michael Rivers is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Rivers rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
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C.
Daniel J. Chure
Daniel J. Chure is an American paleontologist known for his research on large Jurassic theropod dinosaurs and his long-time work at Dinosaur National Monument.
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D.
Karl Kerfoot
Karl Kerfoot is a musician best known as a former member of the American indie folk band Lord Huron.
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E.
M. Sanjayan
M. Sanjayan is a conservation scientist and environmental advocate known for his leadership at Conservation International and his work communicating global biodiversity and climate issues to the public.
- 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: Wade Davis Target entity description: Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and author known for his explorations of indigenous cultures and psychoactive plants.
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A.
Timothy J. Mara
Timothy J. Mara is a member of the Mara family, the longtime owners of the NFL’s New York Giants franchise.
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B.
Michael Rivers
Michael Rivers is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Rivers rather than with widely recognized public achievements.
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C.
Daniel J. Chure
Daniel J. Chure is an American paleontologist known for his research on large Jurassic theropod dinosaurs and his long-time work at Dinosaur National Monument.
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D.
Karl Kerfoot
Karl Kerfoot is a musician best known as a former member of the American indie folk band Lord Huron.
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E.
M. Sanjayan
M. Sanjayan is a conservation scientist and environmental advocate known for his leadership at Conservation International and his work communicating global biodiversity and climate issues to the public.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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author ⓘ ethnobotanist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of Canada
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Royal Canadian Geographical Society Gold Medal ⓘ Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction ⓘ
linked to:
Samuel Johnson Prize
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| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
National Geographic Society
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University of British Columbia ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
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cultural anthropology ⓘ ethnobotany ⓘ indigenous cultures ⓘ psychoactive plants ⓘ |
| genre |
ethnography
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non-fiction ⓘ travel literature ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Amazon rainforest
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Andes ⓘ Haitian Vodou ⓘ Polynesian navigation ⓘ Tibetan culture ⓘ biodiversity and culture ⓘ psychoactive plants ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
conservation movement
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cultural preservation movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
documentation of traditional plant knowledge
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exploration of Amazonian indigenous cultures ⓘ public lectures on cultural diversity ⓘ research on Haitian Vodou and zombification ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Into the Silence
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Light at the Edge of the World ⓘ One River ⓘ Passage of Darkness ⓘ Shadows in the Sun ⓘ The Clouded Leopard ⓘ
linked to:
Neofelis nebulosa
The Serpent and the Rainbow ⓘ The Wayfinders ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
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ethnobotanist ⓘ explorer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic Society
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Professor of Anthropology at University of British Columbia ⓘ |
| 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: Wade Davis Description of subject: Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and author known for his explorations of indigenous cultures and psychoactive plants.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.