Alvin Johnson
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Alvin Johnson was an American economist and educator best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the New School for Social Research in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alvin Johnson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6676087 — 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: Alvin Johnson Context triple: [New School for Social Research, foundedBy, Alvin Johnson]
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A.
Alvin Johnson
Alvin Johnson is the socially awkward but resourceful high school student who transforms his image by dating a popular girl in the teen comedy film "Love Don't Cost a Thing."
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B.
David Allen Johnson
David Allen Johnson, better known as Davey Johnson, is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and highly successful manager, notably leading the New York Mets to the 1986 World Series title.
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C.
Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
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D.
Al Johnson
Al Johnson is an American musician best known as a member of the experimental rock band U.S. Maple.
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E.
Stanley Johnson
Stanley Johnson is a British author, former Conservative politician, and environmental campaigner best known as the father of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
- 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: Alvin Johnson Target entity description: Alvin Johnson was an American economist and educator best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the New School for Social Research in New York City.
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A.
Alvin Johnson
Alvin Johnson is the socially awkward but resourceful high school student who transforms his image by dating a popular girl in the teen comedy film "Love Don't Cost a Thing."
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B.
David Allen Johnson
David Allen Johnson, better known as Davey Johnson, is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and highly successful manager, notably leading the New York Mets to the 1986 World Series title.
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C.
Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning work on films like "Julia" and "Ordinary People" and for co-writing several "Spider-Man" movies.
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D.
Al Johnson
Al Johnson is an American musician best known as a member of the experimental rock band U.S. Maple.
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E.
Stanley Johnson
Stanley Johnson is a British author, former Conservative politician, and environmental campaigner best known as the father of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economist
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
The New School for Social Research
ⓘ
linked to:
New School for Social Research
|
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics
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education ⓘ |
| givenName | Alvin ⓘ |
| name | Alvin Johnson ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding the New School for Social Research
ⓘ
leadership of the New School for Social Research ⓘ |
| occupation |
economist
ⓘ
educator ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New York City
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
co-founder of the New School for Social Research
ⓘ
leader of the New School for Social Research ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Alvin Johnson Description of subject: Alvin Johnson was an American economist and educator best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.