Emer
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Emer is a given name most notably borne by the 18th-century Swiss legal philosopher Emer de Vattel, known for his influential work on international law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2272981 — 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: Emer Context triple: [Emer de Vattel, givenName, Emer]
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A.
Em
Em is a common shortened form of the given name Emma, often used as an informal nickname.
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B.
Ent
Ent is a surname most notably associated with Uzal G. Ent, a senior officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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C.
ER
ER is a critically acclaimed American medical drama television series that follows the personal and professional lives of staff in a busy Chicago emergency room.
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D.
ER
ER is the commonly used abbreviation for United Russia, the dominant ruling political party in the Russian Federation.
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E.
ER
ER is the vehicle registration code assigned to the German city of Erlangen in the state of Bavaria.
- 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: Emer Target entity description: Emer is a given name most notably borne by the 18th-century Swiss legal philosopher Emer de Vattel, known for his influential work on international law.
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A.
Em
Em is a common shortened form of the given name Emma, often used as an informal nickname.
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B.
Ent
Ent is a surname most notably associated with Uzal G. Ent, a senior officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
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C.
ER
ER is the commonly used abbreviation for United Russia, the dominant ruling political party in the Russian Federation.
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D.
ER
ER is a critically acclaimed American medical drama television series that follows the personal and professional lives of staff in a busy Chicago emergency room.
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E.
ER
ER is the vehicle registration code assigned to the German city of Erlangen in the state of Bavaria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish given name
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Swiss person ⓘ feminine given name ⓘ given name ⓘ legal philosopher ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Principality of Neuchâtel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1714 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1767 ⓘ |
| employer | Electorate of Saxony ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
international law
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legal philosophy ⓘ |
| hasCulturalUsage | Ireland ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Emer de Vattel ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Eimear
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Eimer ⓘ |
| influenced |
United States Founding Fathers
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development of modern international law ⓘ early American constitutional thought ⓘ international law doctrine of neutrality ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| nationality | Swiss ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Law of Nations
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surface form:
Le Droit des gens
The Law of Nations ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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jurist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Couvet ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Neuchâtel ⓘ |
| positionHeld | diplomatic representative of Saxony in Switzerland ⓘ |
| primaryWorkSubject |
law of nations
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rights and duties of states ⓘ |
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: Emer Description of subject: Emer is a given name most notably borne by the 18th-century Swiss legal philosopher Emer de Vattel, known for his influential work on international law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.