David Embick
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David Embick is an American linguist known for his influential work in theoretical linguistics, particularly in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Embick canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5170031 — 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: David Embick Context triple: [University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics, notableFaculty, David Embick]
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A.
Dan Talbot
Dan Talbot was an influential American film distributor and exhibitor known for championing foreign and independent cinema in the United States.
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B.
David Ellingson
David Ellingson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit ballad "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer," popularized by Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes.
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C.
Guy Weadick
Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
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D.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
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E.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
- 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: David Embick Target entity description: David Embick is an American linguist known for his influential work in theoretical linguistics, particularly in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces.
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A.
Dan Talbot
Dan Talbot was an influential American film distributor and exhibitor known for championing foreign and independent cinema in the United States.
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B.
David Ellingson
David Ellingson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit ballad "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer," popularized by Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes.
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C.
Guy Weadick
Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
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D.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
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E.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguist
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person ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brandeis University
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Distributed Morphology
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linguistics ⓘ morphology ⓘ morphosyntax ⓘ syntax ⓘ syntax–morphology interface ⓘ theoretical linguistics ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableWork |
Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology
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On the Structure of Resultative Participles in English ⓘ The Morpheme ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Linguistics ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
argument structure
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interface between syntax and morphology ⓘ interface between syntax and phonology ⓘ phase theory ⓘ syntactic locality ⓘ word formation ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: David Embick Description of subject: David Embick is an American linguist known for his influential work in theoretical linguistics, particularly in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.