Ferdinand Hodler
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Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter known for his symbolist and monumental figurative works that significantly influenced modern art in Central Europe.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ferdinand Hodler canonical | 26 |
| Ferdinand Hodler’s Symbolist works | 1 |
| Ferdinand Hodler’s mature Symbolist works | 1 |
| Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1834501 — 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: Ferdinand Hodler Context triple: [Neue Galerie New York, exhibitsWorkBy, Ferdinand Hodler]
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A.
Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein was an influential Austrian architect and designer known for his postmodern buildings and his role in shaping late 20th-century architecture.
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B.
Eduard de Stoeckl
Eduard de Stoeckl was a 19th-century Russian diplomat best known for representing the Russian Empire in Washington and arranging the sale of Alaska to the United States.
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C.
Paul Otto
Paul Otto was a military commander known for leading forces in the 1939 Battle of Kock during the German invasion of Poland in World War II.
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D.
Moritz Leuenberger
Moritz Leuenberger is a Swiss politician and former member of the Federal Council who served as head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications.
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E.
Hermann Balck
Hermann Balck was a highly regarded German panzer general of World War II, noted for his tactical skill in mobile warfare on both the Eastern and Western Fronts.
- 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: Ferdinand Hodler Target entity description: Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter known for his symbolist and monumental figurative works that significantly influenced modern art in Central Europe.
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A.
Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein was an influential Austrian architect and designer known for his postmodern buildings and his role in shaping late 20th-century architecture.
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B.
Eduard de Stoeckl
Eduard de Stoeckl was a 19th-century Russian diplomat best known for representing the Russian Empire in Washington and arranging the sale of Alaska to the United States.
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C.
Paul Otto
Paul Otto was a military commander known for leading forces in the 1939 Battle of Kock during the German invasion of Poland in World War II.
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D.
Moritz Leuenberger
Moritz Leuenberger is a Swiss politician and former member of the Federal Council who served as head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications.
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E.
Hermann Balck
Hermann Balck was a highly regarded German panzer general of World War II, noted for his tactical skill in mobile warfare on both the Eastern and Western Fronts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ferdinand Hodler Description of subject: Ferdinand Hodler was a Swiss painter known for his symbolist and monumental figurative works that significantly influenced modern art in Central Europe.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ferdinand Hodler