Floyd Lounsbury
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Floyd Lounsbury was an American linguist and anthropologist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the decipherment and understanding of Maya hieroglyphic writing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Floyd Lounsbury canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6561372 — 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: Floyd Lounsbury Context triple: [Maya epigraphy, hasKeyFigure, Floyd Lounsbury]
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A.
Fred Luddy
Fred Luddy is an American entrepreneur and software executive best known as the founder of the cloud-based enterprise software company ServiceNow.
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B.
Floyd Huddleston
Floyd Huddleston was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on Disney films such as "The Aristocats" and "The Jungle Book."
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C.
John Gilleland
John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
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D.
Frank E. Bunts
Frank E. Bunts was an American physician and surgeon best known as one of the founding doctors of the Cleveland Clinic, a major academic medical center.
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E.
Lloyd Tabb
Lloyd Tabb is a software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder and chief architect of the business intelligence and data analytics company Looker.
- 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: Floyd Lounsbury Target entity description: Floyd Lounsbury was an American linguist and anthropologist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the decipherment and understanding of Maya hieroglyphic writing.
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A.
Fred Luddy
Fred Luddy is an American entrepreneur and software executive best known as the founder of the cloud-based enterprise software company ServiceNow.
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B.
Floyd Huddleston
Floyd Huddleston was an American songwriter and lyricist best known for his work on Disney films such as "The Aristocats" and "The Jungle Book."
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C.
John Gilleland
John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
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D.
Frank E. Bunts
Frank E. Bunts was an American physician and surgeon best known as one of the founding doctors of the Cleveland Clinic, a major academic medical center.
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E.
Lloyd Tabb
Lloyd Tabb is a software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder and chief architect of the business intelligence and data analytics company Looker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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human ⓘ linguist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
Americanist linguistics
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historical linguistics ⓘ structural linguistics ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Maya epigraphy
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Mesoamerican linguistics ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
historical reconstruction of Mayan languages
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phonetic interpretation of Maya glyphs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Yale University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Lounsbury ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Maya hieroglyphic writing
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Maya studies ⓘ anthropology ⓘ epigraphy ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Floyd ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influenced |
Maya epigraphers
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Mesoamerican archaeologists ⓘ subsequent decipherment of Maya inscriptions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to the understanding of Maya calendrics
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decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing ⓘ structural analysis of Mayan languages ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Yale Department of Anthropology
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Yale Department of Linguistics ⓘ |
| name | Floyd Lounsbury ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering contributions to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on Maya calendar and inscriptions
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studies on the Maya script ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
ⓘ
linguist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Mesoamerica
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United States of America ⓘ |
| studied |
Maya calendar
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Maya hieroglyphs ⓘ Mayan languages ⓘ |
| workLocation | New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Floyd Lounsbury Description of subject: Floyd Lounsbury was an American linguist and anthropologist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the decipherment and understanding of Maya hieroglyphic writing.
Referenced by (4)
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