Steve Weissman
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Steve Weissman is an American political activist and writer best known for his leadership role in the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Weissman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T76911 — 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: Steve Weissman Context triple: [Free Speech Movement, hasKeyFigure, Steve Weissman]
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A.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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B.
Daniel H. Weiss
Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
Eric Saltzman
Eric Saltzman is a co-founder of Creative Commons, the nonprofit organization that develops and promotes free legal tools for sharing and remixing creative works.
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D.
David B. Cornstein
David B. Cornstein is an American businessman and Republican political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Donald Trump.
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E.
Art Goldberg
Art Goldberg was a prominent activist and organizer associated with the 1960s Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 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: Steve Weissman Target entity description: Steve Weissman is an American political activist and writer best known for his leadership role in the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
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A.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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B.
Daniel H. Weiss
Daniel H. Weiss is an American art historian and academic leader who served as president and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
Eric Saltzman
Eric Saltzman is a co-founder of Creative Commons, the nonprofit organization that develops and promotes free legal tools for sharing and remixing creative works.
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D.
David B. Cornstein
David B. Cornstein is an American businessman and Republican political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Donald Trump.
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E.
Art Goldberg
Art Goldberg was a prominent activist and organizer associated with the 1960s Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
political activist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| activismFocus |
civil rights
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free speech on campus ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| era | 1960s American student movement ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil liberties
ⓘ
free speech advocacy ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
ⓘ
political writing ⓘ |
| hasRole |
organizer in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
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student leader ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
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linked to:
Free Speech Movement
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| notableEvent | student protests at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership role in the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement ⓘ |
| notableWorkContext | writings on the Berkeley Free Speech Movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
political activist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Free Speech Movement
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| partOf |
American New Left
ⓘ
linked to:
New Left
|
| placeOfActivity |
Berkeley, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Berkeley
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| politicalAlignment | left-wing politics ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| writesAbout |
U.S. politics
ⓘ
civil liberties issues ⓘ social movements ⓘ |
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: Steve Weissman Description of subject: Steve Weissman is an American political activist and writer best known for his leadership role in the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.