Alfred Marston Tozzer
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Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alfred Marston Tozzer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20219 — 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: Alfred Marston Tozzer Context triple: [Tozzer Library, namedAfter, Alfred Marston Tozzer]
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A.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival and early modern designs, including major churches, public buildings, and monuments in the early 20th century.
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B.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
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C.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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D.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
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E.
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz was a 19th-century Swiss-American naturalist and geologist known for his pioneering work on glaciation and influential but controversial views on biology and race.
- 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: Alfred Marston Tozzer Target entity description: Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
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A.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival and early modern designs, including major churches, public buildings, and monuments in the early 20th century.
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B.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
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C.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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D.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
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E.
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz was a 19th-century Swiss-American naturalist and geologist known for his pioneering work on glaciation and influential but controversial views on biology and race.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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anthropologist ⓘ archaeologist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
archaeology of the Americas
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cultural anthropology ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology ⓘ |
| areaOfResearch |
Maya civilization
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pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Tozzer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Maya studies
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Mesoamerican archaeology ⓘ anthropology ⓘ archaeology ⓘ |
| genre |
archaeological monograph
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ethnography ⓘ |
| givenName | Alfred ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Franz Boas ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | development of Maya studies as an academic field ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Franz Boas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Harvard University
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surface form:
Harvard University faculty
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| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to Maya ethnography
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integration of ethnographic and archaeological methods in Maya research ⓘ long association with Harvard University ⓘ pioneering work in Maya archaeology ⓘ research on Mayan civilization ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ethnographic work on Maya communities
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studies of Maya hieroglyphic writing ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
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archaeologist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Guatemala ⓘ Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Alfred Marston Tozzer Description of subject: Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
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