Othmar
E198415
Othmar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss-American civil engineer Othmar Ammann.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1185719 — 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: Othmar Context triple: [Othmar Ammann, givenName, Othmar]
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A.
Günther
Günther is a German masculine given name traditionally associated with figures of Germanic origin and culture.
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B.
Aribert
Aribert is a Germanic given name, historically borne by medieval nobles and clergy, derived from elements meaning "army" and "bright."
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C.
Heinrici
Heinrici is a German surname most notably associated with Gotthard Heinrici, a senior Wehrmacht general during World War II.
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D.
Johann Sturm
Johann Sturm was a 16th-century German educator and humanist renowned for founding and directing the Strasbourg Gymnasium, a model Protestant school that influenced education across Europe.
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E.
Moritz
Moritz is a masculine given name of German origin, commonly used in German-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: Othmar Target entity description: Othmar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss-American civil engineer Othmar Ammann.
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A.
Günther
Günther is a German masculine given name traditionally associated with figures of Germanic origin and culture.
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B.
Aribert
Aribert is a Germanic given name, historically borne by medieval nobles and clergy, derived from elements meaning "army" and "bright."
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C.
Heinrici
Heinrici is a German surname most notably associated with Gotthard Heinrici, a senior Wehrmacht general during World War II.
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D.
Johann Sturm
Johann Sturm was a 16th-century German educator and humanist renowned for founding and directing the Strasbourg Gymnasium, a model Protestant school that influenced education across Europe.
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E.
Moritz
Moritz is a masculine given name of German origin, commonly used in German-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Germanic given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ human ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Switzerland
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer |
Port of New York Authority
ⓘ
linked to:
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
|
| familyName | Ammann ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | bridge engineering ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| givenName | Othmar ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Othmar Ammann ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bayonne Bridge
ⓘ
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge ⓘ
linked to:
Whitestone Bridge
George Washington Bridge ⓘ Triborough Bridge ⓘ Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge ⓘ |
| occupation | civil engineer ⓘ |
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: Othmar Description of subject: Othmar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss-American civil engineer Othmar Ammann.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Othmar
linked to: Othmar