Ammann
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Ammann is a surname most notably associated with Othmar Ammann, the Swiss-American civil engineer renowned for designing many of New York City's major suspension bridges.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ammann canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8402755 — 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: Ammann Context triple: [Othmar Ammann, familyName, Ammann]
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A.
Huldrych
Huldrych is the given name of Huldrych Zwingli, the influential Swiss reformer and key figure in the early Protestant Reformation.
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B.
Othmar
Othmar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss-American civil engineer Othmar Ammann.
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C.
Titus Burckhardt
Titus Burckhardt was a Swiss traditionalist author and scholar of comparative religion, sacred art, and metaphysics, known for his influential works on Sufism and the perennial philosophy.
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D.
Kuno of Rheinfelden
Kuno of Rheinfelden was a medieval nobleman from the influential Rheinfelden family, known primarily as the son of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, a key opponent of the Salian emperors during the Investiture Controversy.
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E.
Rutishauser
Rutishauser is a Swiss surname most notably associated with Heinz Rutishauser, a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist in the field of numerical analysis and early programming languages.
- 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: Ammann Target entity description: Ammann is a surname most notably associated with Othmar Ammann, the Swiss-American civil engineer renowned for designing many of New York City's major suspension bridges.
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A.
Huldrych
Huldrych is the given name of Huldrych Zwingli, the influential Swiss reformer and key figure in the early Protestant Reformation.
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B.
Othmar
Othmar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss-American civil engineer Othmar Ammann.
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C.
Titus Burckhardt
Titus Burckhardt was a Swiss traditionalist author and scholar of comparative religion, sacred art, and metaphysics, known for his influential works on Sufism and the perennial philosophy.
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D.
Kuno of Rheinfelden
Kuno of Rheinfelden was a medieval nobleman from the influential Rheinfelden family, known primarily as the son of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, a key opponent of the Salian emperors during the Investiture Controversy.
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E.
Rutishauser
Rutishauser is a Swiss surname most notably associated with Heinz Rutishauser, a pioneering mathematician and computer scientist in the field of numerical analysis and early programming languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil engineer
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person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
German-language surnames
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Swiss surnames ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Switzerland
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| designed |
Bayonne Bridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bronx–Whitestone Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ George Washington Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Throgs Neck Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Triborough Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Port of New York Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | bridge engineering ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Othmar Ammann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Aman
NERFINISHED
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Amman NERFINISHED ⓘ Ammannn ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
German
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Swiss German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | design of suspension bridges in New York City ⓘ |
| occupation | civil engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Schaffhausen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Germany
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Switzerland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Ammann Description of subject: Ammann is a surname most notably associated with Othmar Ammann, the Swiss-American civil engineer renowned for designing many of New York City's major suspension bridges.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Othmar Ammann