Felix Modjeski
E762029
Felix Modjeski was the son of renowned Polish-American civil engineer and bridge designer Ralph Modjeski.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Felix Modjeski canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8854801 — 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: Felix Modjeski Context triple: [Ralph Modjeski, child, Felix Modjeski]
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A.
Ralph Modjeski
Ralph Modjeski was a renowned Polish-American civil engineer celebrated as one of the leading bridge designers of the early 20th century.
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B.
Othmar Ammann
Othmar Ammann was a Swiss-American civil engineer renowned for designing many of New York City's major suspension bridges, including the George Washington Bridge.
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C.
Leon Moisseiff
Leon Moisseiff was a prominent early 20th-century civil engineer known for pioneering deflection theory in suspension bridge design and contributing to several major American bridges.
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D.
Harland Williams
Harland Williams is a Canadian-American actor and comedian known for his offbeat, deadpan humor and roles in films like "Half Baked," "Dumb and Dumber," and "RocketMan."
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E.
Gustav Lindenthal
Gustav Lindenthal was an influential early 20th-century civil engineer renowned for designing major American steel bridges and advancing long-span bridge construction.
- 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: Felix Modjeski Target entity description: Felix Modjeski was the son of renowned Polish-American civil engineer and bridge designer Ralph Modjeski.
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A.
Ralph Modjeski
Ralph Modjeski was a renowned Polish-American civil engineer celebrated as one of the leading bridge designers of the early 20th century.
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B.
Othmar Ammann
Othmar Ammann was a Swiss-American civil engineer renowned for designing many of New York City's major suspension bridges, including the George Washington Bridge.
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C.
Leon Moisseiff
Leon Moisseiff was a prominent early 20th-century civil engineer known for pioneering deflection theory in suspension bridge design and contributing to several major American bridges.
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D.
Harland Williams
Harland Williams is a Canadian-American actor and comedian known for his offbeat, deadpan humor and roles in films like "Half Baked," "Dumb and Dumber," and "RocketMan."
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E.
Gustav Lindenthal
Gustav Lindenthal was an influential early 20th-century civil engineer renowned for designing major American steel bridges and advancing long-span bridge construction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Felix Modjeski ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Poland
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Modjeski ⓘ |
| father | Ralph Modjeski ⓘ |
| givenName | Felix ⓘ |
| occupation |
bridge designer
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civil engineer ⓘ |
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: Felix Modjeski Description of subject: Felix Modjeski was the son of renowned Polish-American civil engineer and bridge designer Ralph Modjeski.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Felix Modjeski