Wilhelm Peters
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Wilhelm Peters was a 19th-century German naturalist and zoologist known for his extensive work in taxonomy and species description.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wilhelm Peters canonical | 11 |
| Wilhelm Karl Hartwig Peters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3369631 — 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: Wilhelm Peters Context triple: [spectacled flying fox, describedBy, Wilhelm Peters]
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A.
Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth
Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth was a Prussian statesman and reformer who played a key role in advancing technical education and industrial development in early 19th-century Germany.
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B.
Maximilian Emil Hehl
Maximilian Emil Hehl was a German-born architect known for his influential work in Brazil, most notably helping shape the neo-Gothic architectural landscape of São Paulo.
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C.
Friedrich Karl Schmidt
Friedrich Karl Schmidt was a German mathematician known for his contributions to algebra and number theory, particularly in the theory of function fields.
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D.
Otto Georg Thierack
Otto Georg Thierack was a prominent Nazi jurist who served as Germany’s Reich Minister of Justice and played a key role in implementing the regime’s oppressive and genocidal legal policies.
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E.
Ludwig Borchardt
Ludwig Borchardt was a German Egyptologist and archaeologist best known for his early 20th-century excavations in Egypt and the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti.
- 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: Wilhelm Peters Target entity description: Wilhelm Peters was a 19th-century German naturalist and zoologist known for his extensive work in taxonomy and species description.
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A.
Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth
Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth was a Prussian statesman and reformer who played a key role in advancing technical education and industrial development in early 19th-century Germany.
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B.
Maximilian Emil Hehl
Maximilian Emil Hehl was a German-born architect known for his influential work in Brazil, most notably helping shape the neo-Gothic architectural landscape of São Paulo.
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C.
Friedrich Karl Schmidt
Friedrich Karl Schmidt was a German mathematician known for his contributions to algebra and number theory, particularly in the theory of function fields.
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D.
Otto Georg Thierack
Otto Georg Thierack was a prominent Nazi jurist who served as Germany’s Reich Minister of Justice and played a key role in implementing the regime’s oppressive and genocidal legal policies.
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E.
Ludwig Borchardt
Ludwig Borchardt was a German Egyptologist and archaeologist best known for his early 20th-century excavations in Egypt and the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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zoologist ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Berlin ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
Kingdom of Prussia ⓘ
linked to:
Prussia
|
| dateOfBirth | 1815-04-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1883-04-20 ⓘ |
| describedTaxon |
Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat
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many African amphibian species ⓘ many African reptile species ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Berlin
ⓘ
linked to:
Humboldt University of Berlin
|
| employer | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin ⓘ |
| familyName | Peters ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
herpetology
ⓘ
natural history ⓘ taxonomy ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| givenName | Wilhelm ⓘ |
| hasHonorificEponym |
Peters’s elephantnose fish (Gnathonemus petersii)
ⓘ
linked to:
Gnathonemus petersii
multiple reptile species named petersi or petersii ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
naturalist
ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ zoologist ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Alexander von Humboldt ⓘ |
| knownFor |
description of numerous new species
ⓘ
work in herpetology ⓘ zoological collections from Mozambique ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| memberOf | Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Paul Matschie ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique
ⓘ
publications on African reptiles and amphibians ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Koldenbüttel ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Berlin ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studiedUnder |
Johannes Peter Müller
ⓘ
linked to:
Johannes Müller
|
| traveledTo |
Algeria
ⓘ
Angola ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Mozambique ⓘ |
| workLocation | Berlin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Wilhelm Peters Description of subject: Wilhelm Peters was a 19th-century German naturalist and zoologist known for his extensive work in taxonomy and species description.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wilhelm Peters