Maudslay
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Maudslay is a surname most notably associated with Alfred P. Maudslay, a pioneering British archaeologist and explorer of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maudslay canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9941884 — 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: Maudslay Context triple: [Alfred P. Maudslay, familyName, Maudslay]
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A.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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B.
Mathieson
Mathieson is a surname of Scottish origin, typically regarded as a variant of Matheson and derived from a patronymic meaning “son of Matthew.”
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C.
Butley
Butley is a 1971 stage play by Simon Gray, best known through Alan Bates’s acclaimed portrayal of its bitter, self-destructive university lecturer protagonist.
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D.
Mothersbaugh
Mothersbaugh is the surname most prominently associated with American musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the new wave band Devo.
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E.
Martz
Martz is a surname most notably associated with Mike Martz, an American football coach known for his innovative offensive strategies in the NFL.
- 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: Maudslay Target entity description: Maudslay is a surname most notably associated with Alfred P. Maudslay, a pioneering British archaeologist and explorer of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.
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A.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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B.
Mathieson
Mathieson is a surname of Scottish origin, typically regarded as a variant of Matheson and derived from a patronymic meaning “son of Matthew.”
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C.
Butley
Butley is a 1971 stage play by Simon Gray, best known through Alan Bates’s acclaimed portrayal of its bitter, self-destructive university lecturer protagonist.
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D.
Mothersbaugh
Mothersbaugh is the surname most prominently associated with American musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the new wave band Devo.
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E.
Martz
Martz is a surname most notably associated with Mike Martz, an American football coach known for his innovative offensive strategies in the NFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mesoamericanist
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archaeologist ⓘ automobile manufacturer ⓘ explorer ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| conductedFieldworkAt |
Copán
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Palenque ⓘ Quiriguá ⓘ Tikal region ⓘ
linked to:
Tikal
Yaxchilán ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1771-08-22
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1850-03-18 ⓘ 1871-09-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1831-02-14
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1931-01-22 ⓘ 1934-12-14 ⓘ |
| donatedCollectionTo | British Museum ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harrow School
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Trinity Hall, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName |
Maudslay
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Maudslay ⓘ Maudslay ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Mesoamerican archaeology
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archaeology ⓘ epigraphy ⓘ mechanical engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Alfred Percival ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alfred P. Maudslay
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Henry Maudslay ⓘ Reginald Walter Maudslay ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of precision machine tools
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early photographic documentation of Maya monuments ⓘ founding the Standard Motor Company ⓘ improvements to the screw-cutting lathe ⓘ pioneering archaeological exploration of Maya sites ⓘ systematic recording of Maya inscriptions ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Biologia Centrali-Americana: Archaeology
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linked to:
"Biologia Centrali-Americana: Archaeology"
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| placeOfBirth |
Norwood, London
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linked to:
Norwood, London, England
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| placeOfDeath |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| researched |
Maya civilization
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ancient Mesoamerican civilizations ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne Cary Maudslay ⓘ |
| usedMethod |
large-format photography
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papier-mâché casts of inscriptions ⓘ |
| workedFor | British Museum ⓘ |
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: Maudslay Description of subject: Maudslay is a surname most notably associated with Alfred P. Maudslay, a pioneering British archaeologist and explorer of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.