Ján Still
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Ján Still was a 19th-century Slovak mountaineer and priest known for making the first recorded ascent of Gerlachovský štít, the highest peak in the High Tatras and the Carpathians.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ján Still canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4398683 — 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: Ján Still Context triple: [Gerlachovský štít, firstAscentBy, Ján Still]
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A.
Ján Golian
Ján Golian was a Slovak military officer and key resistance leader who helped organize and lead the anti-Nazi Slovak National Uprising during World War II.
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B.
Ján Hollý
Ján Hollý was a prominent Slovak poet and Catholic priest of the early 19th century, known for his epic and patriotic works that significantly contributed to the formation of modern Slovak literary language and national consciousness.
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C.
Anton Bernolák
Anton Bernolák was an 18th-century Slovak linguist and Catholic priest best known for codifying the first standard form of the Slovak language and playing a key role in the Slovak national revival.
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D.
Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout is a Czech writer and former dissident best known as a prominent playwright and novelist associated with the Prague Spring and the Charter 77 movement.
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E.
Jan Kotěra
Jan Kotěra was a pioneering Czech architect and key figure of early modern architecture in Central Europe, known for transitioning from Art Nouveau to functionalist and modernist styles.
- 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: Ján Still Target entity description: Ján Still was a 19th-century Slovak mountaineer and priest known for making the first recorded ascent of Gerlachovský štít, the highest peak in the High Tatras and the Carpathians.
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A.
Ján Golian
Ján Golian was a Slovak military officer and key resistance leader who helped organize and lead the anti-Nazi Slovak National Uprising during World War II.
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B.
Ján Hollý
Ján Hollý was a prominent Slovak poet and Catholic priest of the early 19th century, known for his epic and patriotic works that significantly contributed to the formation of modern Slovak literary language and national consciousness.
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C.
Anton Bernolák
Anton Bernolák was an 18th-century Slovak linguist and Catholic priest best known for codifying the first standard form of the Slovak language and playing a key role in the Slovak national revival.
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D.
Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout is a Czech writer and former dissident best known as a prominent playwright and novelist associated with the Prague Spring and the Charter 77 movement.
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E.
Jan Kotěra
Jan Kotěra was a pioneering Czech architect and key figure of early modern architecture in Central Europe, known for transitioning from Art Nouveau to functionalist and modernist styles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic priest
ⓘ
Slovak person ⓘ human ⓘ mountain ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| climbingArea |
Carpathian Mountains
ⓘ
High Tatras ⓘ
linked to:
Tatra Mountains
|
| country | Slovakia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Hungary ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Slovaks ⓘ |
| familyName | Still ⓘ |
| givenName | Ján ⓘ |
| highestPointOf |
Carpathian Mountains
ⓘ
High Tatras ⓘ
linked to:
Tatra Mountains
|
| knownAs | Ján Still ⓘ |
| languageOfEthnicGroup | Slovak language ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
High Tatras
ⓘ
linked to:
Tatra Mountains
|
| notableAchievement | made the first recorded ascent of Gerlachovský štít ⓘ |
| notableAscent | Gerlachovský štít ⓘ |
| notableFor | first recorded ascent of Gerlachovský štít ⓘ |
| notableWork | pioneering ascents in the High Tatras ⓘ |
| occupation |
mountaineer
ⓘ
priest ⓘ |
| partOf | Carpathian Mountains ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
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: Ján Still Description of subject: Ján Still was a 19th-century Slovak mountaineer and priest known for making the first recorded ascent of Gerlachovský štít, the highest peak in the High Tatras and the Carpathians.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.