James Q. Wilson
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James Q. Wilson was a prominent American political scientist best known for his work on crime, policing, and public policy, including the influential "broken windows" theory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Q. Wilson canonical | 12 |
| James Q. Wilson; political scientist | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T202874 — 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: James Q. Wilson Context triple: [Merriam Award, notableRecipient, James Q. Wilson]
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Gary King
Gary King is a prominent American political scientist and quantitative methodologist at Harvard University, known for his influential work in statistical methods for social science research.
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B.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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C.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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D.
Urie McCleary
Urie McCleary was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films in the mid-20th century.
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E.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
- 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: James Q. Wilson Target entity description: James Q. Wilson was a prominent American political scientist best known for his work on crime, policing, and public policy, including the influential "broken windows" theory.
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A.
Gary King
Gary King is a prominent American political scientist and quantitative methodologist at Harvard University, known for his influential work in statistical methods for social science research.
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B.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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C.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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D.
Urie McCleary
Urie McCleary was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films in the mid-20th century.
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E.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: James Q. Wilson Description of subject: James Q. Wilson was a prominent American political scientist best known for his work on crime, policing, and public policy, including the influential "broken windows" theory.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Merriam Award from the American Political Science Association
subject linked to:
James Quinn Wilson
subject linked to:
broken windows theory
linked to: James Q. Wilson