Donald Johanson
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Donald Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist best known for discovering the famous early hominin fossil "Lucy," which significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22475217 — 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: Donald Johanson Context triple: [Australopithecus afarensis, LucyDiscoverer, Donald Johanson]
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Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey was a renowned Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and political figure known for his groundbreaking fossil discoveries on human evolution and his leadership in wildlife protection.
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Timothy P. White
Timothy P. White is an American academic leader and kinesiologist who served as chancellor of the California State University system and previously led the University of California, Riverside.
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Robert Broom
Robert Broom was a Scottish-South African paleontologist renowned for his pioneering discoveries of early hominin fossils that significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
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Nicholas J. Conard
Nicholas J. Conard is a prehistorian and archaeologist known for his excavations in the Swabian Jura that uncovered some of the earliest examples of figurative art and musical instruments.
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E.
Raymond Dart
Raymond Dart was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist best known for identifying the Taung Child fossil and proposing the species Australopithecus africanus, which significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
- 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: Donald Johanson Target entity description: Donald Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist best known for discovering the famous early hominin fossil "Lucy," which significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
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A.
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey was a renowned Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and political figure known for his groundbreaking fossil discoveries on human evolution and his leadership in wildlife protection.
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B.
Timothy P. White
Timothy P. White is an American academic leader and kinesiologist who served as chancellor of the California State University system and previously led the University of California, Riverside.
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C.
Robert Broom
Robert Broom was a Scottish-South African paleontologist renowned for his pioneering discoveries of early hominin fossils that significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
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D.
Nicholas J. Conard
Nicholas J. Conard is a prehistorian and archaeologist known for his excavations in the Swabian Jura that uncovered some of the earliest examples of figurative art and musical instruments.
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E.
Raymond Dart
Raymond Dart was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist best known for identifying the Taung Child fossil and proposing the species Australopithecus africanus, which significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.