Charles Tate Regan
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Charles Tate Regan was a prominent British ichthyologist and zoologist known for his influential taxonomic work on fishes in the early 20th century.
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| Charles Tate Regan canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10435946 — 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: Charles Tate Regan Context triple: [Phallostethidae, namedBy, Charles Tate Regan]
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Macon Leary
Macon Leary is the emotionally reserved, travel-guide-writing protagonist of Anne Tyler’s novel "The Accidental Tourist," whose life is upended by grief and an unexpected new relationship.
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B.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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D.
Joseph Braden
Joseph Braden was a 19th-century landowner and sugar planter in Florida whose name was given to the city of Bradenton.
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E.
Gridley Bryant
Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
- 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: Charles Tate Regan Target entity description: Charles Tate Regan was a prominent British ichthyologist and zoologist known for his influential taxonomic work on fishes in the early 20th century.
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A.
Macon Leary
Macon Leary is the emotionally reserved, travel-guide-writing protagonist of Anne Tyler’s novel "The Accidental Tourist," whose life is upended by grief and an unexpected new relationship.
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B.
Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
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C.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
-
D.
Joseph Braden
Joseph Braden was a 19th-century landowner and sugar planter in Florida whose name was given to the city of Bradenton.
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E.
Gridley Bryant
Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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ichthyologist ⓘ |
| affiliation |
British Museum (Natural History)
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linked to:
Natural History Museum, London
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| areaOfInfluence | early 20th-century ichthyology ⓘ |
| citizenship | British Empire ⓘ |
| contributedTo | development of modern ichthyological taxonomy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Queens' College, University of Cambridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| employer | Natural History Museum, London ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Regan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ichthyology
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taxonomy ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| genre | scientific literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle |
Fellow of the Royal Society
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linked to:
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
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| influenced | later fish taxonomists ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
classification of vertebrates
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systematics of fishes ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Linnean Society of London
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Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Charles Tate Regan ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
described numerous new fish taxa
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helped modernize fish classification systems ⓘ |
| notableFor | influential taxonomic work on fishes ⓘ |
| notableWork |
contributions to the British Museum fish catalogues
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revisions of fish families and genera ⓘ studies on cichlid fishes ⓘ taxonomic classification of fishes ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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museum director ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Natural History Museum, London
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Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum, London ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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