Paul Kosok
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Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Kosok canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T478928 — 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: Paul Kosok Context triple: [Nazca Lines, earlyAerialStudyBy, Paul Kosok]
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A.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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B.
René Leibowitz
René Leibowitz was a Polish-born French composer, conductor, and influential music theorist who helped introduce and promote twelve-tone and serial techniques in postwar France.
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C.
Paul Körner
Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
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D.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
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E.
Paul Varjak
Paul Varjak is a struggling writer and Holly Golightly’s neighbor and love interest in Truman Capote’s novella and the film adaptation "Breakfast at Tiffany’s."
- 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: Paul Kosok Target entity description: Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
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A.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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B.
René Leibowitz
René Leibowitz was a Polish-born French composer, conductor, and influential music theorist who helped introduce and promote twelve-tone and serial techniques in postwar France.
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C.
Paul Körner
Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
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D.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
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E.
Paul Varjak
Paul Varjak is a struggling writer and Holly Golightly’s neighbor and love interest in Truman Capote’s novella and the film adaptation "Breakfast at Tiffany’s."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeologist
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historian ⓘ human ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | study of ancient Peruvian cultures ⓘ |
| contributedTo | recognition of Nazca Lines as a large-scale geoglyph system ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Andean archaeology
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archaeology ⓘ history ⓘ pre-Columbian studies ⓘ |
| genre | academic research ⓘ |
| helpedEstablish |
Nazca Lines
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surface form:
Nazca Lines as a subject of scientific study
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| influenced | Maria Reiche ⓘ |
| knownAs | pioneer of Nazca Lines research ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early aerial surveys of the Nazca Lines in the 1930s
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pioneering study of the Nazca Lines ⓘ |
| occupation |
archaeologist
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historian ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Nazca Desert
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Peru ⓘ |
| researchFocus | pre-Columbian irrigation and geoglyphs in Peru ⓘ |
| studied | Nazca Lines ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity | 1930s ⓘ |
| usedMethod |
aerial photography
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aerial survey ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Paul Kosok Description of subject: Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.