Herbert H. Clark
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Herbert H. Clark is an American psycholinguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on language use, common ground, and the pragmatics of conversation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herbert H. Clark canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5292656 — 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: Herbert H. Clark Context triple: [Clark, hasNotableBearer, Herbert H. Clark]
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A.
John F. McCarthy
John F. McCarthy was a California state legislator and influential political figure from Marin County, recognized for his role in regional infrastructure and public service.
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B.
Terry Winograd
Terry Winograd is a pioneering computer scientist known for his influential work in artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, and human-computer interaction.
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C.
Louis J. Horvitz
Louis J. Horvitz is an American television director best known for directing numerous major live awards shows, including multiple Academy Awards broadcasts.
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D.
Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow was an influential American computer scientist and early artificial intelligence researcher known for his work on natural language understanding and AI programming systems.
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E.
Richard Waldinger
Richard Waldinger is a computer scientist known for his work in automated reasoning and program verification, often in collaboration with Zohar Manna.
- 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: Herbert H. Clark Target entity description: Herbert H. Clark is an American psycholinguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on language use, common ground, and the pragmatics of conversation.
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A.
John F. McCarthy
John F. McCarthy was a California state legislator and influential political figure from Marin County, recognized for his role in regional infrastructure and public service.
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B.
Terry Winograd
Terry Winograd is a pioneering computer scientist known for his influential work in artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, and human-computer interaction.
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C.
Louis J. Horvitz
Louis J. Horvitz is an American television director best known for directing numerous major live awards shows, including multiple Academy Awards broadcasts.
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D.
Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow was an influential American computer scientist and early artificial intelligence researcher known for his work on natural language understanding and AI programming systems.
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E.
Richard Waldinger
Richard Waldinger is a computer scientist known for his work in automated reasoning and program verification, often in collaboration with Zohar Manna.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cognitive scientist
ⓘ
person ⓘ psycholinguist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Clark ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cognitive science
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communication ⓘ discourse analysis ⓘ language use ⓘ pragmatics ⓘ psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Herbert ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
linguistics
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psychology ⓘ |
| hasAcademicPosition | professor at Stanford University ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Arenas of Language Use
ⓘ
Psychology and Language ⓘ
linked to:
Language as a Cognitive Process
Referring as a Collaborative Process ⓘ Using Language ⓘ |
| influenced |
cognitive models of communication
ⓘ
pragmatics theory ⓘ research on dialogue systems ⓘ research on human–computer interaction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
common ground in communication
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conversation ⓘ coordination in dialogue ⓘ discourse ⓘ reference ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
collaborative reference
ⓘ
common ground ⓘ grounding in communication ⓘ language use as joint action ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on common ground in communication
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research on grounding in communication ⓘ studies of reference in dialogue ⓘ theory of language use as joint action ⓘ work on the pragmatics of conversation ⓘ |
| workLocation | Stanford, California ⓘ |
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: Herbert H. Clark Description of subject: Herbert H. Clark is an American psycholinguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on language use, common ground, and the pragmatics of conversation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.