Paul Duguid
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Paul Duguid is a scholar of information studies and co-author of the influential book "The Social Life of Information" with John Seely Brown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Duguid canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8195440 — 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: Paul Duguid Context triple: [John Seely Brown, coAuthor, Paul Duguid]
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A.
Ian McDougall
Ian McDougall is an Australian architect best known as a founding director of the influential firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM), recognized for its bold and unconventional public architecture.
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B.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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C.
Paul Ferroll
Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
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D.
Gordon Gunter
Gordon Gunter was a prominent American marine biologist and fisheries scientist known for his influential research on the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Gordon MacDonald
Gordon MacDonald is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, as well as his long-term relationship with actress Holly Hunter.
- 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: Paul Duguid Target entity description: Paul Duguid is a scholar of information studies and co-author of the influential book "The Social Life of Information" with John Seely Brown.
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A.
Ian McDougall
Ian McDougall is an Australian architect best known as a founding director of the influential firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM), recognized for its bold and unconventional public architecture.
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B.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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C.
Paul Ferroll
Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
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D.
Gordon Gunter
Gordon Gunter was a prominent American marine biologist and fisheries scientist known for his influential research on the ecology of the Gulf of Mexico.
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E.
Gordon MacDonald
Gordon MacDonald is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, as well as his long-term relationship with actress Holly Hunter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| author |
John Seely Brown
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Paul Duguid ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | The Social Life of Information ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | John Seely Brown ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
history of information
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information studies ⓘ social informatics ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-author ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
information technology
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knowledge management ⓘ organizational studies ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of social context of information use
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critiques of technological determinism ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Social Life of Information ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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writer ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
digital technology and society
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history of books ⓘ information practices ⓘ knowledge work ⓘ organizational learning ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berkeley, California
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linked to:
Berkeley, California, 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: Paul Duguid Description of subject: Paul Duguid is a scholar of information studies and co-author of the influential book "The Social Life of Information" with John Seely Brown.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.