Steve Woolgar
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Steve Woolgar is a British sociologist of science and technology, known for his influential work in science and technology studies and co-authoring the seminal book "Laboratory Life."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Woolgar canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11645454 — 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: Steve Woolgar Context triple: [Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, author, Steve Woolgar]
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A.
Graeme Duffin
Graeme Duffin is a Scottish guitarist best known for his long-time, though often unofficial, role as the lead guitarist for the pop band Wet Wet Wet.
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B.
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe was an American character actor known for his prolific career in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, often portraying dignified or scholarly supporting roles.
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C.
Matt Strevens
Matt Strevens is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the revived era of Doctor Who.
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D.
Michael Harnett
Michael Harnett is the birth name of Michael Hartnett, a prominent Irish poet known for his lyrical work in both English and Irish.
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E.
Jonathan Gledhill
Jonathan Gledhill was an English Anglican bishop who served in senior episcopal roles in the Church of England, including as Bishop of Stafford.
- 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: Steve Woolgar Target entity description: Steve Woolgar is a British sociologist of science and technology, known for his influential work in science and technology studies and co-authoring the seminal book "Laboratory Life."
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A.
Graeme Duffin
Graeme Duffin is a Scottish guitarist best known for his long-time, though often unofficial, role as the lead guitarist for the pop band Wet Wet Wet.
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B.
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe was an American character actor known for his prolific career in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, often portraying dignified or scholarly supporting roles.
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C.
Matt Strevens
Matt Strevens is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the revived era of Doctor Who.
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D.
Michael Harnett
Michael Harnett is the birth name of Michael Hartnett, a prominent Irish poet known for his lyrical work in both English and Irish.
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E.
Jonathan Gledhill
Jonathan Gledhill was an English Anglican bishop who served in senior episcopal roles in the Church of England, including as Bishop of Stafford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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author ⓘ book ⓘ human ⓘ science and technology studies scholar ⓘ sociologist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
science and technology studies
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sociology ⓘ |
| author |
Bruno Latour
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Steve Woolgar ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coAuthoredWith | Bruno Latour ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Laboratory Life ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
science and technology studies
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social studies of science ⓘ sociology of science ⓘ sociology of scientific knowledge ⓘ sociology of technology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science and technology studies literature ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
laboratory ethnography
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science and technology studies ⓘ sociology of scientific knowledge ⓘ |
| knownFor |
constructivist approaches to scientific knowledge
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contributions to science and technology studies ⓘ ethnographic studies of scientific practice ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | laboratory studies ⓘ |
| name | Steve Woolgar ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
analysis of scientific practice as social activity
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reflexive sociology of science ⓘ |
| notableWork | Laboratory Life ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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researcher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| theoreticalApproach |
constructivist sociology of science
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social construction of scientific facts ⓘ |
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: Steve Woolgar Description of subject: Steve Woolgar is a British sociologist of science and technology, known for his influential work in science and technology studies and co-authoring the seminal book "Laboratory Life."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.