Bernard E. Harcourt
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Bernard E. Harcourt is a legal scholar and critical theorist known for his influential critiques of policing practices, criminal justice policy, and the ideological foundations of mass incarceration.
All labels observed (1)
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| Bernard E. Harcourt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10227272 — 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: Bernard E. Harcourt Context triple: [Broken windows theory, hasCritic, Bernard E. Harcourt]
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A.
Duncan Kennedy
Duncan Kennedy is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1999 science fiction horror film "Deep Blue Sea."
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B.
Karl Llewellyn
Karl Llewellyn was a prominent 20th-century American legal scholar and leading figure of the legal realism movement, known especially for his role in drafting the Uniform Commercial Code.
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C.
Philip Bobbitt
Philip Bobbitt is an American constitutional scholar and legal theorist known for his influential work on constitutional interpretation, national security, and the relationship between law and strategy.
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D.
Kenneth N. Stevens
Kenneth N. Stevens was a pioneering acoustician and speech scientist renowned for his foundational work on the acoustic theory of speech production and perception.
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E.
Francis Boyle
Francis Boyle is a prominent American human rights lawyer and law professor known for his work in international law and advocacy for oppressed peoples.
- 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: Bernard E. Harcourt Target entity description: Bernard E. Harcourt is a legal scholar and critical theorist known for his influential critiques of policing practices, criminal justice policy, and the ideological foundations of mass incarceration.
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A.
Duncan Kennedy
Duncan Kennedy is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1999 science fiction horror film "Deep Blue Sea."
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B.
Karl Llewellyn
Karl Llewellyn was a prominent 20th-century American legal scholar and leading figure of the legal realism movement, known especially for his role in drafting the Uniform Commercial Code.
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C.
Philip Bobbitt
Philip Bobbitt is an American constitutional scholar and legal theorist known for his influential work on constitutional interpretation, national security, and the relationship between law and strategy.
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D.
Kenneth N. Stevens
Kenneth N. Stevens was a pioneering acoustician and speech scientist renowned for his foundational work on the acoustic theory of speech production and perception.
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E.
Francis Boyle
Francis Boyle is a prominent American human rights lawyer and law professor known for his work in international law and advocacy for oppressed peoples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminologist
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critical theorist ⓘ human ⓘ law professor ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
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Harvard University ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia Law School
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Columbia University ⓘ University of Chicago Law School ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
criminal justice
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criminal law ⓘ critical theory ⓘ law and economics ⓘ mass incarceration ⓘ policing ⓘ political theory ⓘ punishment and society ⓘ sociology of punishment ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
law
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philosophy ⓘ political science ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
broken windows policing
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mass incarceration in the United States ⓘ police profiling ⓘ stop-and-frisk ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analysis of neoliberalism and punishment
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critiques of actuarial justice and risk-based profiling ⓘ critiques of criminal justice policy ⓘ critiques of mass incarceration ⓘ critiques of policing practices ⓘ engagement with critical theory and Foucault ⓘ work on surveillance and digital exposure ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
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Critique & Praxis ⓘ Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age ⓘ Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy ⓘ Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience ⓘ The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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professor ⓘ researcher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
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Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology ⓘ Professor of Political Science at Columbia University ⓘ |
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: Bernard E. Harcourt Description of subject: Bernard E. Harcourt is a legal scholar and critical theorist known for his influential critiques of policing practices, criminal justice policy, and the ideological foundations of mass incarceration.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
broken windows theory