Hölldobler
E20290
Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hölldobler canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T131732 — 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: Hölldobler Context triple: [Bert Hölldobler, familyName, Hölldobler]
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A.
Achterhooks
Achterhooks is a regional Low Saxon dialect spoken in the Achterhoek area of the eastern Netherlands.
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B.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
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C.
Rednitz
The Rednitz is a river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through cities such as Fürth and joins with the Pegnitz to form the Regnitz.
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D.
Ngäbere
Ngäbere is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken primarily by the Ngäbe people in Panama and parts of Costa Rica.
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E.
Krammer
Krammer is a body of water in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta in the southwestern Netherlands, known as a former estuarine channel now separated from the sea by dams and used for recreation and water management.
- 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: Hölldobler Target entity description: Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
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A.
Achterhooks
Achterhooks is a regional Low Saxon dialect spoken in the Achterhoek area of the eastern Netherlands.
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B.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
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C.
Rednitz
The Rednitz is a river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through cities such as Fürth and joins with the Pegnitz to form the Regnitz.
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D.
Ngäbere
Ngäbere is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken primarily by the Ngäbe people in Panama and parts of Costa Rica.
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E.
Krammer
Krammer is a body of water in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta in the southwestern Netherlands, known as a former estuarine channel now separated from the sea by dams and used for recreation and water management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language surname
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| familyName | Hölldobler ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
behavioral ecology
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entomology ⓘ myrmecology ⓘ |
| givenName | Bert ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Bert Hölldobler ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Hölldobler ⓘ |
| knownAs | Bert Hölldobler ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableFor | research on ants ⓘ |
| occupation |
behavioral ecologist
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myrmecologist ⓘ |
| studies |
ants
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social insects ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Germany ⓘ |
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: Hölldobler Description of subject: Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.