Waldo Wedel
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Waldo Wedel was an American archaeologist known for his influential work on early Mesoamerican and North American prehistoric cultures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Waldo Wedel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1587112 — 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: Waldo Wedel Context triple: [La Venta, excavatedBy, Waldo Wedel]
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A.
Waldemar Young
Waldemar Young was an American screenwriter known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the silent and early sound eras.
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B.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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C.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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D.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Rudolf Garrels
Rudolf Garrels was an 18th-century Dutch organ builder known for constructing and maintaining notable church organs in the Netherlands.
- 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: Waldo Wedel Target entity description: Waldo Wedel was an American archaeologist known for his influential work on early Mesoamerican and North American prehistoric cultures.
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A.
Waldemar Young
Waldemar Young was an American screenwriter known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the silent and early sound eras.
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B.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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C.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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D.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Rudolf Garrels
Rudolf Garrels was an 18th-century Dutch organ builder known for constructing and maintaining notable church organs in the Netherlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American archaeologist
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archaeologist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Mesoamerican archaeology
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North American archaeology ⓘ archaeology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | influential figure in American archaeology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on North American prehistoric cultures
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research on early Mesoamerican cultures ⓘ |
| occupation | archaeologist ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Mesoamerica
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North America ⓘ |
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: Waldo Wedel Description of subject: Waldo Wedel was an American archaeologist known for his influential work on early Mesoamerican and North American prehistoric cultures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.