Julius von Mohl
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Julius von Mohl was a 19th-century German orientalist and scholar renowned for his pioneering work on Persian literature and the publication of the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Julius von Mohl canonical | 2 |
| von Mohl | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13389345 — 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: Julius von Mohl Context triple: [von Mohl family, hasNotableMember, Julius von Mohl]
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A.
Adolf Engler
Adolf Engler was a German botanist renowned for his influential plant classification system that shaped modern taxonomy and phytogeography.
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B.
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
Carl Ludwig Willdenow was a prominent German botanist and taxonomist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his influential work in plant classification and for mentoring Alexander von Humboldt.
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C.
Philipp Friedrich Bunge
Philipp Friedrich Bunge was a 19th-century Baltic German botanist known for his extensive plant explorations and taxonomic work in Asia and Russia.
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D.
August Boeckh
August Boeckh was a prominent 19th-century German classical philologist and antiquarian known for his influential work on ancient Greek literature, history, and metrics.
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E.
Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck
Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck was a 19th-century Alsatian physician and botanist known for his contributions to plant taxonomy, particularly of alpine and bryophyte flora.
- 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: Julius von Mohl Target entity description: Julius von Mohl was a 19th-century German orientalist and scholar renowned for his pioneering work on Persian literature and the publication of the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh.
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A.
Adolf Engler
Adolf Engler was a German botanist renowned for his influential plant classification system that shaped modern taxonomy and phytogeography.
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B.
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
Carl Ludwig Willdenow was a prominent German botanist and taxonomist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his influential work in plant classification and for mentoring Alexander von Humboldt.
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C.
Philipp Friedrich Bunge
Philipp Friedrich Bunge was a 19th-century Baltic German botanist known for his extensive plant explorations and taxonomic work in Asia and Russia.
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D.
August Boeckh
August Boeckh was a prominent 19th-century German classical philologist and antiquarian known for his influential work on ancient Greek literature, history, and metrics.
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E.
Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck
Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck was a 19th-century Alsatian physician and botanist known for his contributions to plant taxonomy, particularly of alpine and bryophyte flora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranologist
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human ⓘ orientalist ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| citizenship |
France
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Kingdom of Württemberg ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Duchy of Württemberg ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1800-10-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1876-01-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Paris
ⓘ
University of Tübingen ⓘ |
| employer | Collège de France ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName |
von Mohl
ⓘ
linked to:
Julius von Mohl
|
| fieldOfWork |
Iranian studies
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Oriental studies ⓘ Persian literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Julius ⓘ |
| influenced | development of European Iranology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pioneering work on Persian literature
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publication of the Persian national epic Shahnameh ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Persian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
ⓘ
linked to:
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Société Asiatique ⓘ |
| name | Julius von Mohl ⓘ |
| nationality |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
edition of the Shahnameh
ⓘ
publications on Persian history ⓘ translation of the Shahnameh ⓘ |
| occupation |
orientalist
ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Stuttgart ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of Persian at the Collège de France ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Clarke Mohl ⓘ |
| studied |
Oriental languages
ⓘ
Persian philology ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
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: Julius von Mohl Description of subject: Julius von Mohl was a 19th-century German orientalist and scholar renowned for his pioneering work on Persian literature and the publication of the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Julius von Mohl