Matthias Zumtaugwald
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Matthias Zumtaugwald was a 19th-century Swiss mountain guide and climber known for participating in the first ascent of Dufourspitze, the highest peak in Switzerland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthias Zumtaugwald canonical | 3 |
| Johannes Zumtaugwald | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3481950 — 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: Matthias Zumtaugwald Context triple: [Dufourspitze, firstAscentBy, Matthias Zumtaugwald]
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Othmar
Othmar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss-American civil engineer Othmar Ammann.
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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.
Gebhard
Gebhard is a German given name most famously borne by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the Prussian field marshal who helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.
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D.
Ulrich
Ulrich is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in German-speaking countries and historically borne by nobles, scholars, and religious figures.
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E.
Irmfried
Irmfried is a masculine German given name most notably borne by Irmfried Eberl, an Austrian physician and Nazi SS officer who served as a commandant of extermination camps during World War II.
- 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: Matthias Zumtaugwald Target entity description: Matthias Zumtaugwald was a 19th-century Swiss mountain guide and climber known for participating in the first ascent of Dufourspitze, the highest peak in Switzerland.
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A.
Othmar
Othmar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss-American civil engineer Othmar Ammann.
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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.
Gebhard
Gebhard is a German given name most famously borne by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the Prussian field marshal who helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.
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D.
Ulrich
Ulrich is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in German-speaking countries and historically borne by nobles, scholars, and religious figures.
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E.
Irmfried
Irmfried is a masculine German given name most notably borne by Irmfried Eberl, an Austrian physician and Nazi SS officer who served as a commandant of extermination camps during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss person
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climber ⓘ human ⓘ mountain ⓘ mountain guide ⓘ mountaineering expedition ⓘ |
| activityStartCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | mountaineering ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | Matthias Zumtaugwald ⓘ |
| highestPointOf | Switzerland ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a 19th-century Swiss mountain guide
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participation in the first ascent of the highest peak in Switzerland ⓘ |
| notableWork | first ascent of Dufourspitze ⓘ |
| occupation |
climber
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mountain guide ⓘ |
| participatedIn | first ascent of Dufourspitze ⓘ |
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: Matthias Zumtaugwald Description of subject: Matthias Zumtaugwald was a 19th-century Swiss mountain guide and climber known for participating in the first ascent of Dufourspitze, the highest peak in Switzerland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.