Glenn A. Black
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Glenn A. Black was a pioneering American archaeologist best known for his extensive research on Mississippian culture sites in the Midwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glenn A. Black canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9503954 — 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: Glenn A. Black Context triple: [Angel Mounds, archaeologicalExcavationsBy, Glenn A. Black]
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A.
Randall B. Smith
Randall B. Smith is a designer or creator best known as the person responsible for developing the work referred to as "Self."
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B.
Gregory L. Norris
Gregory L. Norris is a recognized figure in his field, honored for his significant contributions with the prestigious Silver Hammer Award.
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C.
Richard O. Covey
Richard O. Covey is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and helped lead the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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D.
Stanley E. Johnson
Stanley E. Johnson is an editor best known for his work on the classic American children's novel "Old Yeller."
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E.
Arden L. Bement Jr.
Arden L. Bement Jr. is an American engineer and public servant best known for leading major U.S. science and engineering agencies, including serving as director of the National Science Foundation.
- 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: Glenn A. Black Target entity description: Glenn A. Black was a pioneering American archaeologist best known for his extensive research on Mississippian culture sites in the Midwest.
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A.
Randall B. Smith
Randall B. Smith is a designer or creator best known as the person responsible for developing the work referred to as "Self."
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B.
Gregory L. Norris
Gregory L. Norris is a recognized figure in his field, honored for his significant contributions with the prestigious Silver Hammer Award.
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C.
Richard O. Covey
Richard O. Covey is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and helped lead the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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D.
Stanley E. Johnson
Stanley E. Johnson is an editor best known for his work on the classic American children's novel "Old Yeller."
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E.
Arden L. Bement Jr.
Arden L. Bement Jr. is an American engineer and public servant best known for leading major U.S. science and engineering agencies, including serving as director of the National Science Foundation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeologist
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human ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
Midwestern United States prehistory
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Ohio River Valley ⓘ
linked to:
Ohio Valley region
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | archaeological projects in Indiana ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Midwestern archaeology
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Mississippian culture ⓘ North American archaeology ⓘ archaeology ⓘ |
| genre |
archaeological field reports
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site monographs ⓘ |
| hasNotableStudentOrProtégé | later Midwestern archaeologists ⓘ |
| influenced |
Midwestern archaeological methodology
ⓘ
study of Mississippian chiefdoms ⓘ |
| knownFor |
excavations at Angel Mounds
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research on Mississippian culture sites in the Midwest ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long-term excavation programs in the Midwest
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pioneering field methods at Mississippian sites ⓘ |
| notableWork |
systematic excavations at Angel Mounds State Historic Site
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linked to:
Angel Mounds
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| occupation | archaeologist ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Mississippian village and mound complexes
ⓘ
prehistoric earthwork sites ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studies |
Mississippian period settlements
ⓘ
prehistoric Native American cultures ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Indiana
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Midwestern United States ⓘ |
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: Glenn A. Black Description of subject: Glenn A. Black was a pioneering American archaeologist best known for his extensive research on Mississippian culture sites in the Midwest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.