Steven Browning Sample
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Steven Browning Sample was an American engineer and academic administrator best known for serving as president of the University of Southern California from 1991 to 2010.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steven Browning Sample canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6590060 — 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: Steven Browning Sample Context triple: [Steven B. Sample, fullName, Steven Browning Sample]
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A.
Stuart Browning
Stuart Browning is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Embarcadero Technologies.
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B.
Jonathan Brown
Jonathan Brown is a cinematographer best known for his work on major studio comedies and mainstream Hollywood films, including the 2006 reboot of The Pink Panther.
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C.
Jeff Browne
Jeff Browne is an Australian football administrator and lawyer best known for serving as president of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.
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D.
Stephen Susco
Stephen Susco is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for writing horror films such as "The Grudge" and its sequel.
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E.
Jonathan Baker
Jonathan Baker is an English Anglican bishop who serves as the Bishop of Fulham, providing episcopal oversight particularly for traditionalist parishes within the Church of England.
- 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: Steven Browning Sample Target entity description: Steven Browning Sample was an American engineer and academic administrator best known for serving as president of the University of Southern California from 1991 to 2010.
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A.
Stuart Browning
Stuart Browning is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Embarcadero Technologies.
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B.
Jonathan Brown
Jonathan Brown is a cinematographer best known for his work on major studio comedies and mainstream Hollywood films, including the 2006 reboot of The Pink Panther.
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C.
Jeff Browne
Jeff Browne is an Australian football administrator and lawyer best known for serving as president of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.
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D.
Stephen Susco
Stephen Susco is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for writing horror films such as "The Grudge" and its sequel.
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E.
Jonathan Baker
Jonathan Baker is an English Anglican bishop who serves as the Bishop of Fulham, providing episcopal oversight particularly for traditionalist parishes within the Church of England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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human ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| familyName | Sample ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
engineering
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higher education administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Steven ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Steven Browning Sample ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as president of the University of Southern California from 1991 to 2010 ⓘ |
| notableRole | transforming USC into a leading research university ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
ⓘ
engineer ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of the University of Southern California ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| workPeriodEnd | 2010 ⓘ |
| workPeriodStart | 1991 ⓘ |
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: Steven Browning Sample Description of subject: Steven Browning Sample was an American engineer and academic administrator best known for serving as president of the University of Southern California from 1991 to 2010.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.