Richard L. Kagan
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Richard L. Kagan is an American historian known for his scholarship on early modern Spain and the Spanish Empire.
All labels observed (1)
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| Richard L. Kagan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9480290 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard L. Kagan Context triple: [Kagan, hasNotableBearer, Richard L. Kagan]
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Norman Kagan
Norman Kagan was an American film critic and author known for his writings on cinema and popular culture.
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Robert G. Goldstein
Robert G. Goldstein is an American business executive best known as the chief executive officer and a leading figure of the global casino and resort company Las Vegas Sands.
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C.
Richard H. Neiman
Richard H. Neiman is an American financial regulator and attorney who served as New York State’s Superintendent of Banks and was a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel monitoring the U.S. financial bailout.
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D.
Richard E. Stearns
Richard E. Stearns is an American computer scientist best known for co-developing the theory of computational complexity, including the foundational time hierarchy theorem.
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E.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
- 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: Richard L. Kagan Target entity description: Richard L. Kagan is an American historian known for his scholarship on early modern Spain and the Spanish Empire.
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A.
Norman Kagan
Norman Kagan was an American film critic and author known for his writings on cinema and popular culture.
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B.
Robert G. Goldstein
Robert G. Goldstein is an American business executive best known as the chief executive officer and a leading figure of the global casino and resort company Las Vegas Sands.
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C.
Richard H. Neiman
Richard H. Neiman is an American financial regulator and attorney who served as New York State’s Superintendent of Banks and was a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel monitoring the U.S. financial bailout.
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D.
Richard E. Stearns
Richard E. Stearns is an American computer scientist best known for co-developing the theory of computational complexity, including the foundational time hierarchy theorem.
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E.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | historian ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | J. H. Elliott ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
historiography of Spain
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historiography of the Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
ⓘ
University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| employer | Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| familyName | Kagan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Spanish history
ⓘ
early modern history ⓘ history of the Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| genre | academic history ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | history ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor emeritus ⓘ |
| hasRole |
editor of scholarly volumes on Spanish history
ⓘ
mentor to graduate students in early modern history ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
Castile in the early modern period
ⓘ
linked to:
History of the Crown of Castile
Spanish imperial imagery ⓘ Spanish legal institutions ⓘ Spanish urbanism ⓘ politics of history writing in Spain ⓘ |
| influenced |
historians of early modern Spain
ⓘ
scholars of the Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| influencedBy | J. H. Elliott ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Historical Association ⓘ |
| notableFor |
promoting the study of Spanish history in the United States
ⓘ
scholarship on early modern Spain ⓘ scholarship on the Spanish Empire ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
ⓘ
Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500–1700 ⓘ Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States ⓘ Students and Society in Early Modern Spain ⓘ Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493–1793 ⓘ |
| occupation | historian ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of history ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
history of Hispanism in the United States
ⓘ
intellectual history of Spain ⓘ legal culture in early modern Spain ⓘ urban history of the Hispanic world ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Baltimore ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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