Michael Waterstone
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Michael Waterstone is a legal scholar and academic leader who serves as the dean of UCLA School of Law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Waterstone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11567962 — 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: Michael Waterstone Context triple: [UCLA School of Law, hasDean, Michael Waterstone]
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A.
Jonathan Penrose
Jonathan Penrose was a British chess grandmaster and psychologist, best known for winning the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969.
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B.
John Tyrrell
John Tyrrell was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often appearing in comedies and crime dramas.
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C.
John Watherstone
John Watherstone is a fictional character known primarily as the fiancé of Catherine Winslow in the play "The Winslow Boy" by Terence Rattigan.
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D.
David Wheatley
David Wheatley was a British film and television director known for his adaptations of literary works, including several films based on Angela Carter’s stories.
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E.
Philip Stainton
Philip Stainton was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films, including the adventure drama "Mogambo."
- 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: Michael Waterstone Target entity description: Michael Waterstone is a legal scholar and academic leader who serves as the dean of UCLA School of Law.
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A.
Jonathan Penrose
Jonathan Penrose was a British chess grandmaster and psychologist, best known for winning the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969.
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B.
John Tyrrell
John Tyrrell was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, often appearing in comedies and crime dramas.
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C.
John Watherstone
John Watherstone is a fictional character known primarily as the fiancé of Catherine Winslow in the play "The Winslow Boy" by Terence Rattigan.
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D.
David Wheatley
David Wheatley was a British film and television director known for his adaptations of literary works, including several films based on Angela Carter’s stories.
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E.
Philip Stainton
Philip Stainton was a British character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films, including the adventure drama "Mogambo."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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human ⓘ law school dean ⓘ legal scholar ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | law ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of California system ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
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UCLA ⓘ
linked to:
University of California, Los Angeles
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| employer |
UCLA School of Law
ⓘ
University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights law
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disability law ⓘ election law ⓘ employment law ⓘ law ⓘ |
| genre | legal scholarship ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor ⓘ |
| hasRole | academic leader ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
UCLA School of Law faculty
ⓘ
linked to:
UCLA School of Law
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| notableFor |
leadership at UCLA School of Law
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scholarship in disability law ⓘ |
| occupation |
legal academic
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professor of law ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Dean of UCLA School of Law ⓘ |
| teachesAt | UCLA School of Law ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
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: Michael Waterstone Description of subject: Michael Waterstone is a legal scholar and academic leader who serves as the dean of UCLA School of Law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.