John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities
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The John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the humanities held by philosopher Thomas McCarthy.
All labels observed (1)
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| John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7239632 — 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: John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities Context triple: [Thomas McCarthy, positionHeld, John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities]
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities is a prestigious endowed academic chair in the humanities, notably held by Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel.
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John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy
The John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of Notre Dame held by leading scholars such as Alvin Plantinga.
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Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy
The Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of California, Berkeley, held by leading scholars such as Bernard Williams.
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Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication
The Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication is an endowed academic chair in communication studies named in honor of influential communication scholar Steven H. Chaffee.
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Alva O. Way University Professor
The Alva O. Way University Professor is a distinguished endowed professorship at Brown University held by eminent historian Gordon S. Wood.
- 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: John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities Target entity description: The John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the humanities held by philosopher Thomas McCarthy.
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A.
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities is a prestigious endowed academic chair in the humanities, notably held by Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel.
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B.
John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy
The John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of Notre Dame held by leading scholars such as Alvin Plantinga.
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C.
Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy
The Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy is a distinguished endowed chair at the University of California, Berkeley, held by leading scholars such as Bernard Williams.
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D.
Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication
The Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication is an endowed academic chair in communication studies named in honor of influential communication scholar Steven H. Chaffee.
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E.
Alva O. Way University Professor
The Alva O. Way University Professor is a distinguished endowed professorship at Brown University held by eminent historian Gordon S. Wood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
endowed academic chair
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philosopher ⓘ professorship ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | philosophy ⓘ |
| category | endowed chair in the humanities ⓘ |
| chairType | distinguished chair ⓘ |
| field | humanities ⓘ |
| heldBy | Thomas McCarthy ⓘ |
| holdsTitle | John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Shaffer ⓘ |
| positionType | faculty position ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities Description of subject: The John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities is a distinguished endowed academic chair in the humanities held by philosopher Thomas McCarthy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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John Shaffer Professor of the Humanities