Paul Berman
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Paul Berman is an American writer and political essayist known for his analyses of liberalism, totalitarianism, and U.S. foreign policy in publications such as The New Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Berman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4662501 — 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: Paul Berman Context triple: [The New Republic, hasContributor, Paul Berman]
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A.
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
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B.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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C.
Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky is an American journalist, author, and political commentator known for his liberal analysis and leadership roles at prominent opinion magazines.
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D.
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart is an American political commentator, journalist, and professor known for his writings on U.S. foreign policy, liberalism, and Middle East politics.
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E.
Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur best known as the founder of the online travel booking company Wotif.com.
- 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: Paul Berman Target entity description: Paul Berman is an American writer and political essayist known for his analyses of liberalism, totalitarianism, and U.S. foreign policy in publications such as The New Republic.
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A.
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
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B.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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C.
Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky is an American journalist, author, and political commentator known for his liberal analysis and leadership roles at prominent opinion magazines.
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D.
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart is an American political commentator, journalist, and professor known for his writings on U.S. foreign policy, liberalism, and Middle East politics.
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E.
Graeme Wood
Graeme Wood is an Australian entrepreneur best known as the founder of the online travel booking company Wotif.com.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Paul Berman Description of subject: Paul Berman is an American writer and political essayist known for his analyses of liberalism, totalitarianism, and U.S. foreign policy in publications such as The New Republic.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.