Illiger
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Illiger is the standard taxonomic author abbreviation for Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, a German zoologist and entomologist known for his early 19th-century work in animal classification.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Illiger canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8392622 — 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: Illiger Context triple: [Macroscelidea, taxonAuthorAbbreviation, Illiger]
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A.
Fiala
Fiala is a Czech surname most prominently associated with Petr Fiala, the Czech politician and Prime Minister.
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B.
Trichardt
Trichardt is a small town in Mpumalanga, South Africa, known for its close association with the nearby industrial and coal-mining hub of Secunda.
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C.
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a picturesque Austrian village in Tyrol, known as a popular alpine resort and gateway to the Zugspitze massif.
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D.
Duttweiler
Duttweiler is a village and local district (Ortsteil) of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in the Rhineland-Palatinate wine-growing region of Germany.
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E.
Würm
Würm is a river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing from Lake Starnberg through several towns before joining the Isar River near Munich.
- 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: Illiger Target entity description: Illiger is the standard taxonomic author abbreviation for Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, a German zoologist and entomologist known for his early 19th-century work in animal classification.
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A.
Fiala
Fiala is a Czech surname most prominently associated with Petr Fiala, the Czech politician and Prime Minister.
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B.
Trichardt
Trichardt is a small town in Mpumalanga, South Africa, known for its close association with the nearby industrial and coal-mining hub of Secunda.
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C.
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a picturesque Austrian village in Tyrol, known as a popular alpine resort and gateway to the Zugspitze massif.
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D.
Duttweiler
Duttweiler is a village and local district (Ortsteil) of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in the Rhineland-Palatinate wine-growing region of Germany.
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E.
Würm
Würm is a river in Bavaria, Germany, known for flowing from Lake Starnberg through several towns before joining the Isar River near Munich.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entomologist
ⓘ
human ⓘ taxonomic author abbreviation ⓘ zoologist ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
systematic zoology
ⓘ
taxonomy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | Illiger ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animal classification
ⓘ
entomology ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| givenName |
Johann
ⓘ
Karl ⓘ Wilhelm ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| notableActivityPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| notableFor | early 19th-century work in animal classification ⓘ |
| notableRole | pioneer in systematic animal classification ⓘ |
| occupation |
entomologist
ⓘ
zoologist ⓘ |
| refersTo | Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ⓘ |
| standardAuthorAbbreviationInZoology | Illiger ⓘ |
| usedIn | zoological nomenclature ⓘ |
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: Illiger Description of subject: Illiger is the standard taxonomic author abbreviation for Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, a German zoologist and entomologist known for his early 19th-century work in animal classification.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.