Gegenbaur, 1859
E144695
Gegenbaur, 1859 refers to the original taxonomic authorship and year of description by anatomist Carl Gegenbaur for the flatworm phylum Platyhelminthes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gegenbaur, 1859 canonical | 1 |
| Gegenbaur, 1870s (attribution approximate) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1272634 — 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: Gegenbaur, 1859 Context triple: [Platyhelminthes, scientificNameAuthorship, Gegenbaur, 1859]
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A.
Rudolphi, 1808
Rudolphi, 1808 refers to the original taxonomic authorship and year of description by Karl Asmund Rudolphi for the phylum Nematoda.
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B.
Bateson, 1885
Bateson, 1885 refers to the original 1885 taxonomic work by British biologist William Bateson that formally described and classified the phylum Chordata.
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C.
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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D.
Mommsen
Mommsen is a German surname most famously associated with Theodor Mommsen, the Nobel Prize–winning historian and scholar of ancient Rome.
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E.
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
- 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: Gegenbaur, 1859 Target entity description: Gegenbaur, 1859 refers to the original taxonomic authorship and year of description by anatomist Carl Gegenbaur for the flatworm phylum Platyhelminthes.
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A.
Rudolphi, 1808
Rudolphi, 1808 refers to the original taxonomic authorship and year of description by Karl Asmund Rudolphi for the phylum Nematoda.
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B.
Bateson, 1885
Bateson, 1885 refers to the original 1885 taxonomic work by British biologist William Bateson that formally described and classified the phylum Chordata.
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C.
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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D.
Mommsen
Mommsen is a German surname most famously associated with Theodor Mommsen, the Nobel Prize–winning historian and scholar of ancient Rome.
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E.
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | taxonomicAuthorship ⓘ |
| appliesToGroup | flatworms ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept | phylumPlatyhelminthes ⓘ |
| author |
Carl Gegenbaur
ⓘ
linked to:
Rudolph Leuckart
|
| describedTaxon | Platyhelminthes ⓘ |
| field | zoologicalTaxonomy ⓘ |
| hasBasionymAuthor | Carl Gegenbaur ⓘ |
| nomenclaturalCode | International Code of Zoological Nomenclature ⓘ |
| originalCombinationFor | Platyhelminthes ⓘ |
| publicationLanguage | German ⓘ |
| relatedDiscipline | comparativeAnatomy ⓘ |
| taxonomicRankOfDescribedTaxon | phylum ⓘ |
| taxonStatus | validlyPublishedName ⓘ |
| typeOfAuthorship | originalDescription ⓘ |
| yearOfPublication | 1859 ⓘ |
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: Gegenbaur, 1859 Description of subject: Gegenbaur, 1859 refers to the original taxonomic authorship and year of description by anatomist Carl Gegenbaur for the flatworm phylum Platyhelminthes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gegenbaur, 1859