Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
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Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German zoologist and entomologist known for his influential early 19th-century work in animal classification and taxonomy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger canonical | 5 |
| Johann Illiger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1815557 — 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: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger Context triple: [Sciurinae, firstDescribedBy, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger]
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A.
Leopold Fitzinger
Leopold Fitzinger was a 19th-century Austrian zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians.
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B.
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was an 18th-century German naturalist and chemist known for his contributions to taxonomy and for publishing an expanded edition of Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae.
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C.
Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
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D.
Louis Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
- 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: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger Target entity description: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German zoologist and entomologist known for his influential early 19th-century work in animal classification and taxonomy.
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A.
Leopold Fitzinger
Leopold Fitzinger was a 19th-century Austrian zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians.
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B.
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was an 18th-century German naturalist and chemist known for his contributions to taxonomy and for publishing an expanded edition of Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae.
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C.
Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
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D.
Louis Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entomologist
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human ⓘ taxonomist ⓘ zoologist ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
European entomology
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European zoology ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | Illiger ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entomology
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taxonomy ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| givenName |
Johann
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Karl ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | natural history ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential taxonomic publications
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systematic classification of animals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| name | Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to biological taxonomy
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early 19th-century work in animal classification ⓘ |
| notableOccupationPeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
entomologist
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taxonomist ⓘ zoologist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| typeOfScientist | biologist ⓘ |
| workLocation | Germany ⓘ |
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: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger Description of subject: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German zoologist and entomologist known for his influential early 19th-century work in animal classification and taxonomy.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Johann Illiger