Emanuel Lasker
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Emanuel Lasker was a German mathematician and the second World Chess Champion, renowned for holding the title for a record 27 years from 1894 to 1921.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emanuel Lasker canonical | 22 |
| former World Champion Emanuel Lasker | 1 |
| former World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker | 1 |
| world chess champion Emanuel Lasker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1558321 — 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: Emanuel Lasker Context triple: [Paul Gordan, student, Emanuel Lasker]
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A.
Arthur Schoenfeld
Arthur Schoenfeld was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Frank Torre
Frank Torre was an American Major League Baseball first baseman, best known for his years with the Milwaukee Braves and as the older brother of Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre.
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C.
Gerrit Blaauw
Gerrit Blaauw was a Dutch computer scientist and IBM engineer best known as one of the principal architects of the influential IBM System/360 mainframe computer family.
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D.
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players in history and a prominent political activist and author.
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E.
Fritz
Fritz is an individual known primarily as the offspring of Fifi.
- 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: Emanuel Lasker Target entity description: Emanuel Lasker was a German mathematician and the second World Chess Champion, renowned for holding the title for a record 27 years from 1894 to 1921.
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A.
Arthur Schoenfeld
Arthur Schoenfeld was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Frank Torre
Frank Torre was an American Major League Baseball first baseman, best known for his years with the Milwaukee Braves and as the older brother of Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre.
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C.
Gerrit Blaauw
Gerrit Blaauw was a Dutch computer scientist and IBM engineer best known as one of the principal architects of the influential IBM System/360 mainframe computer family.
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D.
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players in history and a prominent political activist and author.
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E.
Fritz
Fritz is an individual known primarily as the offspring of Fifi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Emanuel Lasker Description of subject: Emanuel Lasker was a German mathematician and the second World Chess Champion, renowned for holding the title for a record 27 years from 1894 to 1921.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Emanuel Lasker
linked to: Emanuel Lasker
linked to: Emanuel Lasker