Stier
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Stier is a surname of German origin borne by various individuals, including mathematician John David Stier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1217020 — 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: Stier Context triple: [John David Stier, familyName, Stier]
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A.
Taurus
Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac, symbolized by the Bull and associated with traits like determination, sensuality, and practicality.
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B.
Sagittarius
Sagittarius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, often depicted as an archer and notable for containing the direction of the Milky Way’s center.
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C.
Scorpius
Scorpius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, easily recognized by its curved "scorpion's tail" and bright red supergiant star Antares.
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D.
Aquila
Aquila is a genus of large, powerful birds of prey that includes several species of true eagles found across much of the world.
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E.
Leone
Leone is a village on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa, known for its coastal setting and traditional Samoan culture.
- 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: Stier Target entity description: Stier is a surname of German origin borne by various individuals, including mathematician John David Stier.
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A.
Taurus
Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac, symbolized by the Bull and associated with traits like determination, sensuality, and practicality.
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B.
Sagittarius
Sagittarius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, often depicted as an archer and notable for containing the direction of the Milky Way’s center.
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C.
Scorpius
Scorpius is a prominent zodiac constellation in the southern sky, easily recognized by its curved "scorpion's tail" and bright red supergiant star Antares.
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D.
Aquila
Aquila is a genus of large, powerful birds of prey that includes several species of true eagles found across much of the world.
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E.
Leone
Leone is a village on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa, known for its coastal setting and traditional Samoan culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
David
ⓘ
John ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | John David Stier ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Stier ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Stier Description of subject: Stier is a surname of German origin borne by various individuals, including mathematician John David Stier.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Stier