David Pulsifer
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David Pulsifer was a 19th-century American historian and archivist known for transcribing and editing early New England colonial records.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Pulsifer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9158149 — 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 Pulsifer Context triple: [Plymouth Colony records, editor, David Pulsifer]
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A.
Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer is an American political strategist and former White House communications director who served as a senior adviser to President Barack Obama.
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B.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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C.
Eric Pleskow
Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film executive and producer best known for leading major studios and co-founding the influential independent film company Orion Pictures.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Keith Poulson
Keith Poulson is an American actor known for his work in independent films and for roles in offbeat, character-driven movies.
- 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 Pulsifer Target entity description: David Pulsifer was a 19th-century American historian and archivist known for transcribing and editing early New England colonial records.
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A.
Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer is an American political strategist and former White House communications director who served as a senior adviser to President Barack Obama.
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B.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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C.
Eric Pleskow
Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film executive and producer best known for leading major studios and co-founding the influential independent film company Orion Pictures.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Keith Poulson
Keith Poulson is an American actor known for his work in independent films and for roles in offbeat, character-driven movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archivist
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historian ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
archival science
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history of New England ⓘ |
| knownFor |
editing early New England colonial records
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transcribing early New England colonial records ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWorkType |
colonial record editions
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colonial record transcriptions ⓘ |
| occupation |
archivist
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historian ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New England ⓘ |
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: David Pulsifer Description of subject: David Pulsifer was a 19th-century American historian and archivist known for transcribing and editing early New England colonial records.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.