David Lassner
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David Lassner is an American academic administrator who serves as president of the University of Hawaiʻi system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Lassner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7091711 — 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 Lassner Context triple: [University of Hawaiʻi system, hasLeader, David Lassner]
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A.
Andy Lassner
Andy Lassner is a television producer best known for his long-running work on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and other major daytime talk shows.
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B.
Robert Lusser
Robert Lusser was a German aeronautical engineer best known for his key role in designing several important World War II aircraft, including contributions to the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
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C.
Vern Schillinger
Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
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D.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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E.
Lawrence Bender
Lawrence Bender is an American film producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Quentin Tarantino on influential films such as "Pulp Fiction" and the "Kill Bill" series.
- 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 Lassner Target entity description: David Lassner is an American academic administrator who serves as president of the University of Hawaiʻi system.
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A.
Andy Lassner
Andy Lassner is a television producer best known for his long-running work on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and other major daytime talk shows.
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B.
Robert Lusser
Robert Lusser was a German aeronautical engineer best known for his key role in designing several important World War II aircraft, including contributions to the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
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C.
Vern Schillinger
Vern Schillinger is a fictional white supremacist prison leader and one of the primary antagonists on the HBO series "Oz," portrayed by actor J.K. Simmons.
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D.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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E.
Lawrence Bender
Lawrence Bender is an American film producer best known for his longtime collaboration with Quentin Tarantino on influential films such as "Pulp Fiction" and the "Kill Bill" series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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human ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Northwestern University
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer | University of Hawaiʻi system ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
higher education administration
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information technology management ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasEmployer | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ⓘ |
| hasResidence | Hawaii ⓘ |
| hasRole | chief executive of the University of Hawaiʻi system ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | University of Hawaiʻi faculty ⓘ |
| name | David Lassner ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as president of the University of Hawaiʻi system ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of the University of Hawaiʻi system ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
ⓘ
university president ⓘ |
| partOf |
American academics
ⓘ
American university presidents ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the University of Hawaiʻi system ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Honolulu, Hawaii
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linked to:
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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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 Lassner Description of subject: David Lassner is an American academic administrator who serves as president of the University of Hawaiʻi system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.