Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

David Pesetsky

American linguistborn 1957

Supervised 53 doctoral students and 3 master's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1995 and 2024; Wikidata names Noam Chomsky as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 5 other registers.

Open the full sheetCiteData

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Students56

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jonathan Bobaljik

    born 1969

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 55 people: 54 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.