Harry Pollock
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Harry Pollock is an archaeologist known for his survey work at the ancient Maya site of Sayil in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry Pollock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10275251 — 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: Harry Pollock Context triple: [Sayil, surveyedBy, Harry Pollock]
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A.
Rufus Pollock
Rufus Pollock is a British economist, technologist, and open data advocate best known as a co-founder and leading figure in the global open knowledge and open government data movements.
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B.
Howard Holbrook
Howard Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Holbrook surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily established.
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C.
Henry Pollak
Henry Pollak is an American mathematician known for his work in applied mathematics and combinatorics, as well as his influential role in mathematics education and industry research at Bell Labs.
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D.
Peter Holbrook
Peter Holbrook is a British literary scholar best known for his work on Renaissance literature and Shakespearean studies.
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E.
George Pollock
George Pollock was a 19th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful 1842 Kabul relief during the First Anglo-Afghan War and later serving as a field marshal.
- 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: Harry Pollock Target entity description: Harry Pollock is an archaeologist known for his survey work at the ancient Maya site of Sayil in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
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A.
Rufus Pollock
Rufus Pollock is a British economist, technologist, and open data advocate best known as a co-founder and leading figure in the global open knowledge and open government data movements.
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B.
Howard Holbrook
Howard Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Holbrook surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily established.
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C.
Henry Pollak
Henry Pollak is an American mathematician known for his work in applied mathematics and combinatorics, as well as his influential role in mathematics education and industry research at Bell Labs.
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D.
Peter Holbrook
Peter Holbrook is a British literary scholar best known for his work on Renaissance literature and Shakespearean studies.
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E.
George Pollock
George Pollock was a 19th-century British Army officer best known for leading the successful 1842 Kabul relief during the First Anglo-Afghan War and later serving as a field marshal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Maya archaeological site
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archaeologist ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | Maya archaeology ⓘ |
| knownFor | survey work at the ancient Maya site of Sayil ⓘ |
| location | Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| notableActivity | archaeological survey ⓘ |
| occupation | archaeologist ⓘ |
| researchFocus | Maya sites in Yucatán ⓘ |
| studies | ancient Maya civilization ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Mexico
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Sayil ⓘ Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
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: Harry Pollock Description of subject: Harry Pollock is an archaeologist known for his survey work at the ancient Maya site of Sayil in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.