Coenraad Jacob Temminck
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Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a 19th-century Dutch aristocrat, zoologist, and museum director known for his influential work in mammalogy and ornithology.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coenraad Jacob Temminck canonical | 24 |
| Temminck and Schlegel | 3 |
| C. J. Temminck | 1 |
| Jacob Temminck | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5339364 — 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: Coenraad Jacob Temminck Context triple: [Javan leopard, firstDescribedBy, Coenraad Jacob Temminck]
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A.
Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth was a 19th-century English zoologist and ornithologist known for his pioneering work in animal classification and as one of the early contributors to evolutionary thought.
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B.
Louis Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
William John Swainson
William John Swainson was a 19th-century English naturalist, ornithologist, and illustrator known for his influential taxonomic work and detailed zoological illustrations.
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D.
Leopold Fitzinger
Leopold Fitzinger was a 19th-century Austrian zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians.
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E.
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.
- 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: Coenraad Jacob Temminck Target entity description: Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a 19th-century Dutch aristocrat, zoologist, and museum director known for his influential work in mammalogy and ornithology.
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A.
Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth was a 19th-century English zoologist and ornithologist known for his pioneering work in animal classification and as one of the early contributors to evolutionary thought.
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B.
Louis Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
William John Swainson
William John Swainson was a 19th-century English naturalist, ornithologist, and illustrator known for his influential taxonomic work and detailed zoological illustrations.
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D.
Leopold Fitzinger
Leopold Fitzinger was a 19th-century Austrian zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians.
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E.
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Coenraad Jacob Temminck Description of subject: Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a 19th-century Dutch aristocrat, zoologist, and museum director known for his influential work in mammalogy and ornithology.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Coenraad Jacob Temminck
linked to: Coenraad Jacob Temminck
subject linked to:
bird: Narcissus flycatcher
linked to: Coenraad Jacob Temminck
linked to: Coenraad Jacob Temminck