Martin Lindauer
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Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Martin Lindauer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T131748 — 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: Martin Lindauer Context triple: [Bert Hölldobler, doctoralAdvisor, Martin Lindauer]
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A.
Peter Amundson
Peter Amundson is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction action film "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Christian M. Ravndal
Christian M. Ravndal was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Lars Jensen
Lars Jensen is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online advertising technology company DoubleClick.
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D.
Peder Sather
Peder Sather was a 19th-century Norwegian-born American banker and philanthropist known for his significant financial support of the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
- 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: Martin Lindauer Target entity description: Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
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A.
Peter Amundson
Peter Amundson is a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction action film "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Christian M. Ravndal
Christian M. Ravndal was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Lars Jensen
Lars Jensen is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online advertising technology company DoubleClick.
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D.
Peder Sather
Peder Sather was a 19th-century Norwegian-born American banker and philanthropist known for his significant financial support of the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
behavioral biologist
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biologist ⓘ entomologist ⓘ human ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bavarian Order of Merit
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize ⓘ Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ⓘ |
| employer | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ⓘ |
| familyName | Lindauer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animal communication
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behavioral biology ⓘ entomology ⓘ ethology ⓘ honeybee research ⓘ social organization in insects ⓘ |
| givenName | Martin ⓘ |
| hasResearchSubject |
Apis mellifera
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insect navigation ⓘ social insects ⓘ waggle dance ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Karl von Frisch ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ⓘ |
| name | Martin Lindauer ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extending and refining the dance language theory of bees
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pioneering work on insect communication ⓘ research on division of labor in honeybee colonies ⓘ research on honeybee communication ⓘ studies of insect social behavior ⓘ |
| notableWork | studies on honeybee dance language ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university professor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studentOf | Karl von Frisch ⓘ |
| studies |
communication in honeybees
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division of labor in social insects ⓘ orientation behavior in bees ⓘ |
| workLocation | Munich ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Martin Lindauer Description of subject: Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.