Harry J. Elam Jr.
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Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry J. Elam Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5346373 — 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: Harry J. Elam Jr. Context triple: [Occidental College, president, Harry J. Elam Jr.]
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A.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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B.
William G. McDowell Jr.
William G. McDowell Jr. was an Episcopal bishop who served as a past diocesan leader in Alabama.
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C.
James G. Batterson
James G. Batterson was a 19th-century American businessman and insurance pioneer best known for founding what became the Travelers Companies.
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D.
Arland D. Williams Jr.
Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
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E.
Charles B. Wheeler Jr.
Charles B. Wheeler Jr. was a prominent American politician and attorney who served as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and later as a Missouri state senator.
- 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: Harry J. Elam Jr. Target entity description: Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
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A.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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B.
William G. McDowell Jr.
William G. McDowell Jr. was an Episcopal bishop who served as a past diocesan leader in Alabama.
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C.
James G. Batterson
James G. Batterson was a 19th-century American businessman and insurance pioneer best known for founding what became the Travelers Companies.
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D.
Arland D. Williams Jr.
Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
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E.
Charles B. Wheeler Jr.
Charles B. Wheeler Jr. was a prominent American politician and attorney who served as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and later as a Missouri state senator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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theater scholar ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Kennell Jackson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
Occidental College
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African American theater
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linked to:
African-American theatre
performance studies ⓘ theater studies ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | theater criticism ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
humanities
ⓘ
theater and performance studies ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership in liberal arts education
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scholarship on August Wilson ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Occidental College administration
ⓘ
Stanford University faculty ⓘ
linked to:
Stanford University professors
|
| notableFor |
being the first Black president of Occidental College
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leadership in higher education ⓘ scholarship on African American theater ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson
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Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture ⓘ The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
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professor ⓘ theater scholar ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University
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president of Occidental College ⓘ professor of theater and performance studies at Stanford University ⓘ senior vice provost for education at Stanford University ⓘ vice president for the arts at Stanford University ⓘ vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles
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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: Harry J. Elam Jr. Description of subject: Harry J. Elam Jr. is an American theater scholar and academic leader who became the first Black president of Occidental College.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.