Johnny Weissmuller
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Johnny Weissmuller was an Olympic gold medal–winning swimmer and iconic American actor best known for portraying Tarzan in a series of classic 1930s and 1940s films.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johnny Weissmuller canonical | 26 |
| Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan | 3 |
| Johnny Weissmuller Jr. | 1 |
| Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films | 1 |
| Peter Johann Weissmüller | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1557301 — 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: Johnny Weissmuller Context triple: [Lupe Vélez, spouse, Johnny Weissmuller]
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A.
Oliver Weismuller
Oliver Weismuller was the designer responsible for creating the iconic layout and visual concept of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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B.
Bob Rainsford
Bob Rainsford is the shipwrecked big-game hunter protagonist of the 1932 horror-adventure film "The Most Dangerous Game," who becomes the target of a deranged aristocrat’s human-hunting sport.
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C.
Royal Robbins
Royal Robbins was a pioneering American rock climber and mountaineer renowned for his bold first ascents and advocacy of clean climbing ethics in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Heinsohn
Heinsohn is a surname most prominently associated with Tom Heinsohn, a Hall of Fame Boston Celtics player, coach, and broadcaster.
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E.
Errol
Errol is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a first name in various English-speaking countries.
- 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: Johnny Weissmuller Target entity description: Johnny Weissmuller was an Olympic gold medal–winning swimmer and iconic American actor best known for portraying Tarzan in a series of classic 1930s and 1940s films.
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A.
Oliver Weismuller
Oliver Weismuller was the designer responsible for creating the iconic layout and visual concept of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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B.
Bob Rainsford
Bob Rainsford is the shipwrecked big-game hunter protagonist of the 1932 horror-adventure film "The Most Dangerous Game," who becomes the target of a deranged aristocrat’s human-hunting sport.
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C.
Royal Robbins
Royal Robbins was a pioneering American rock climber and mountaineer renowned for his bold first ascents and advocacy of clean climbing ethics in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Heinsohn
Heinsohn is a surname most prominently associated with Tom Heinsohn, a Hall of Fame Boston Celtics player, coach, and broadcaster.
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E.
Errol
Errol is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a first name in various English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Johnny Weissmuller Description of subject: Johnny Weissmuller was an Olympic gold medal–winning swimmer and iconic American actor best known for portraying Tarzan in a series of classic 1930s and 1940s films.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Weissmuller
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