Weissmuller
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Weissmuller is a surname most famously associated with Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic swimming champion and iconic film actor best known for portraying Tarzan in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weissmuller canonical | 2 |
| Weißmüller | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7498464 — 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: Weissmuller Context triple: [Johnny Weissmuller, familyName, Weissmuller]
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A.
Sylvester
Sylvester is a surname most notably associated with James Joseph Sylvester, a prominent 19th-century English mathematician known for his contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, and number theory.
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B.
Sylvester
Sylvester is a classic Looney Tunes cartoon cat best known for his lisping voice and comical attempts to catch Tweety Bird.
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C.
Sylvester
Sylvester is the birth name of Pope Sylvester I, a 4th-century bishop of Rome associated with the early Christian Church during the reign of Emperor Constantine.
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D.
Willie the Wildcat
Willie the Wildcat is the costumed wildcat mascot who represents Kansas State University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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E.
Willie the Wildcat
Willie the Wildcat is the costumed wildcat mascot who represents Northwestern University's athletic teams and school spirit.
- 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: Weissmuller Target entity description: Weissmuller is a surname most famously associated with Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic swimming champion and iconic film actor best known for portraying Tarzan in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Sylvester
Sylvester is a surname most notably associated with James Joseph Sylvester, a prominent 19th-century English mathematician known for his contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, and number theory.
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B.
Sylvester
Sylvester is a classic Looney Tunes cartoon cat best known for his lisping voice and comical attempts to catch Tweety Bird.
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C.
Sylvester
Sylvester is the birth name of Pope Sylvester I, a 4th-century bishop of Rome associated with the early Christian Church during the reign of Emperor Constantine.
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D.
Willie the Wildcat
Willie the Wildcat is the costumed wildcat mascot who represents Kansas State University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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E.
Willie the Wildcat
Willie the Wildcat is the costumed wildcat mascot who represents Northwestern University's athletic teams and school spirit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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American swimmer ⓘ Olympic swimmer ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| alternativeSpelling |
Weißmüller
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linked to:
Weissmuller
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| competedIn |
Olympic Games
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linked to:
Summer Olympic Games
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| familyName | Weissmuller ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Johnny ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociation |
Olympic swimming
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Tarzan film series ⓘ
linked to:
Tarzan films
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| hasNotableBearer | Johnny Weissmuller ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Olympic swimming champion
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iconic Tarzan actor ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying Tarzan in films ⓘ |
| notablePeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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swimmer ⓘ |
| portrayed | Tarzan ⓘ |
| sport | swimming ⓘ |
| starring | Johnny Weissmuller ⓘ |
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: Weissmuller Description of subject: Weissmuller is a surname most famously associated with Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic swimming champion and iconic film actor best known for portraying Tarzan in the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.