Martin Haspelmath
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Martin Haspelmath is a prominent German linguist known for his influential work in linguistic typology, grammatical description, and the development of cross-linguistic databases.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Martin Haspelmath canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2254233 — 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: Martin Haspelmath Context triple: [Joseph Greenberg, influencedScholar, Martin Haspelmath]
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A.
Robert Blust
Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
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B.
Michael Kenstowicz
Michael Kenstowicz is an American linguist and phonologist known for his influential work on generative phonology and for co-authoring widely used textbooks in the field.
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C.
Paul Kiparsky
Paul Kiparsky is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in generative phonology and historical linguistics.
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D.
Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Greenberg was an influential American linguist best known for his work on language classification and universals, including proposing major language families such as Nilo-Saharan.
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E.
Norbert Hornstein
Norbert Hornstein is an American linguist and syntactician known for his influential work in generative grammar and his advocacy of minimalist approaches to linguistic theory.
- 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: Martin Haspelmath Target entity description: Martin Haspelmath is a prominent German linguist known for his influential work in linguistic typology, grammatical description, and the development of cross-linguistic databases.
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A.
Robert Blust
Robert Blust was an influential American linguist and Austronesian specialist known for his extensive comparative and historical work on the languages of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
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B.
Michael Kenstowicz
Michael Kenstowicz is an American linguist and phonologist known for his influential work on generative phonology and for co-authoring widely used textbooks in the field.
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C.
Paul Kiparsky
Paul Kiparsky is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in generative phonology and historical linguistics.
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D.
Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Greenberg was an influential American linguist best known for his work on language classification and universals, including proposing major language families such as Nilo-Saharan.
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E.
Norbert Hornstein
Norbert Hornstein is an American linguist and syntactician known for his influential work in generative grammar and his advocacy of minimalist approaches to linguistic theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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linguist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| coEditorOf |
World Atlas of Language Structures
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surface form:
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
World Atlas of Language Structures ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-02-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Free University of Berlin
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surface form:
Freie Universität Berlin
University of Cologne ⓘ University of Vienna ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Leipzig
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surface form:
Leipzig University
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cross-linguistic databases
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grammatical description ⓘ language universals ⓘ linguistic typology ⓘ morphology ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in linguistics ⓘ |
| hasORCID | 0000-0003-2127-1305 ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://dlc.hypotheses.org/author/haspelmath ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
case marking
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causative constructions ⓘ grammaticalization ⓘ indefinite pronouns ⓘ reflexive constructions ⓘ word-class distinctions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to language universals research
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development of cross-linguistic databases ⓘ grammatical description of diverse languages ⓘ work in linguistic typology ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| memberOf | Max Planck Society ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Indefinite Pronouns
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Loanwords in the World’s Languages ⓘ World Atlas of Language Structures ⓘ
surface form:
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Understanding Morphology ⓘ World Atlas of Language Structures ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hildesheim ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of a department at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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honorary professor at Leipzig University ⓘ research scientist ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
argument structure
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cross-linguistic comparison ⓘ grammatical categories ⓘ language change ⓘ morphosyntactic alignment ⓘ |
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: Martin Haspelmath Description of subject: Martin Haspelmath is a prominent German linguist known for his influential work in linguistic typology, grammatical description, and the development of cross-linguistic databases.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.