Heiss
E619467
Heiss is the surname of Alanna Heiss, an influential American curator and founder of New York’s pioneering contemporary art institution MoMA PS1.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heiss canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6807901 — 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: Heiss Context triple: [Alanna Heiss, familyName, Heiss]
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A.
Heissler
Heissler is a German-language surname most notably associated with the animated character Klaus Heissler from the television series "American Dad!".
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B.
Hīt
Hīt is an ancient town in central Iraq, historically known for its bitumen springs and strategic location along the Euphrates River.
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C.
Hitzacker
Hitzacker is a small historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its picturesque setting on the Elbe River and its traditional half-timbered architecture.
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D.
Brennen
Brennen is a given name, typically used as a variant spelling of Brennan.
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E.
Hartis
Hartis is a prominent Somali clan family that forms one of the major lineages within the broader Somali clan system.
- 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: Heiss Target entity description: Heiss is the surname of Alanna Heiss, an influential American curator and founder of New York’s pioneering contemporary art institution MoMA PS1.
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A.
Heissler
Heissler is a German-language surname most notably associated with the animated character Klaus Heissler from the television series "American Dad!".
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B.
Hīt
Hīt is an ancient town in central Iraq, historically known for its bitumen springs and strategic location along the Euphrates River.
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C.
Hitzacker
Hitzacker is a small historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its picturesque setting on the Elbe River and its traditional half-timbered architecture.
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D.
Brennen
Brennen is a given name, typically used as a variant spelling of Brennan.
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E.
Hartis
Hartis is a prominent Somali clan family that forms one of the major lineages within the broader Somali clan system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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art curator ⓘ art institution ⓘ contemporary art museum ⓘ human ⓘ museum founder ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| affiliation | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | contemporary art ⓘ |
| focusesOn | contemporary art ⓘ |
| founded |
MoMA PS1
ⓘ
PS1 Contemporary Art Center ⓘ
linked to:
MoMA PS1
|
| foundedBy | Alanna Heiss ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Alanna Heiss ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Heiss ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing MoMA PS1
ⓘ
founding PS1 Contemporary Art Center ⓘ
linked to:
MoMA PS1
|
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| laterBecame | MoMA PS1 ⓘ |
| location |
Long Island City, Queens, New York City
ⓘ
linked to:
Long Island City
Long Island City, Queens, New York City ⓘ
linked to:
Long Island City
|
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| occupation |
curator
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museum director ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | New York City ⓘ |
| usedBy | Alanna Heiss ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Heiss Description of subject: Heiss is the surname of Alanna Heiss, an influential American curator and founder of New York’s pioneering contemporary art institution MoMA PS1.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Heiss