Erik Hesselberg
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Erik Hesselberg was a Norwegian sailor, navigator, and artist best known for serving as the navigator and mapmaker on Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition across the Pacific.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Erik Hesselberg canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12078291 — 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: Erik Hesselberg Context triple: [Kon-Tiki (book), featuresPerson, Erik Hesselberg]
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A.
Erik Selvig
Erik Selvig is a fictional astrophysicist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who becomes a close ally of Thor and plays a key role in studying and understanding cosmic phenomena.
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B.
Erik Scavenius
Erik Scavenius was a Danish diplomat and politician who served as Denmark’s foreign minister and later prime minister, known for his controversial policy of cooperation with Nazi Germany during World War II.
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C.
Erik Salomonsen
Erik Salomonsen, better known as Erik Erikson, was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst renowned for his theory of psychosocial development across the lifespan.
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D.
Erik Kråkström
Erik Kråkström was a Finnish architect known for his modernist industrial and residential designs, including significant work on the Sunila Pulp Mill complex.
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E.
Lars Hanson
Lars Hanson was a prominent Swedish silent film actor known for his intense dramatic performances in both European cinema and early Hollywood.
- 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: Erik Hesselberg Target entity description: Erik Hesselberg was a Norwegian sailor, navigator, and artist best known for serving as the navigator and mapmaker on Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition across the Pacific.
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A.
Erik Selvig
Erik Selvig is a fictional astrophysicist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who becomes a close ally of Thor and plays a key role in studying and understanding cosmic phenomena.
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B.
Erik Scavenius
Erik Scavenius was a Danish diplomat and politician who served as Denmark’s foreign minister and later prime minister, known for his controversial policy of cooperation with Nazi Germany during World War II.
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C.
Erik Salomonsen
Erik Salomonsen, better known as Erik Erikson, was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst renowned for his theory of psychosocial development across the lifespan.
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D.
Erik Kråkström
Erik Kråkström was a Finnish architect known for his modernist industrial and residential designs, including significant work on the Sunila Pulp Mill complex.
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E.
Lars Hanson
Lars Hanson was a prominent Swedish silent film actor known for his intense dramatic performances in both European cinema and early Hollywood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.