Bitter
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Bitter is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals, including sculptor Karl Bitter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bitter canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3268476 — 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: Bitter Context triple: [Karl Bitter, familyName, Bitter]
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A.
Bitterman
Bitterman is a prominent playable marine character from the Quake series, best known as the main protagonist of Quake II.
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B.
Jaded
"Jaded" is a song by the American rock band Insomniac.
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C.
Bad Taste
Bad Taste is a 1987 low-budget splatter comedy film that marked Peter Jackson’s feature directorial debut and gained cult status for its outrageous gore and dark humor.
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D.
Vicious
Vicious is a hip-hop artist known for collaborating with The Hip-Hop Violinist on genre-blending tracks.
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E.
Vicious
Vicious is a British sitcom starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a long-term gay couple navigating their acerbic yet affectionate relationship in London.
- 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: Bitter Target entity description: Bitter is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals, including sculptor Karl Bitter.
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A.
Bitterman
Bitterman is a prominent playable marine character from the Quake series, best known as the main protagonist of Quake II.
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B.
Jaded
"Jaded" is a song by the American rock band Insomniac.
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C.
Bad Taste
Bad Taste is a 1987 low-budget splatter comedy film that marked Peter Jackson’s feature directorial debut and gained cult status for its outrageous gore and dark humor.
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D.
Vicious
Vicious is a hip-hop artist known for collaborating with The Hip-Hop Violinist on genre-blending tracks.
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E.
Vicious
Vicious is a British sitcom starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a long-term gay couple navigating their acerbic yet affectionate relationship in London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
athlete
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conductor ⓘ family name ⓘ jurist ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ physicist ⓘ politician ⓘ sculptor ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1867-12-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1915-04-09 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Bitter
self-linksurface differs
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Bitter Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
physics
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sculpture ⓘ |
| genre |
architectural sculpture
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monumental sculpture ⓘ |
| givenName |
Karl
ⓘ
Susan ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Francis Bitter
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John Bitter ⓘ Karl Bitter ⓘ Klaus Bitter NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Bitter ⓘ Susan Bitter Smith ⓘ Theo Bitter ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| notableFor | development of strong electromagnets ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Pulitzer Fountain
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Rittenhouse Square lion sculptures ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| sport | field hockey ⓘ |
| usedAs |
Dutch-language surname
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German-language surname ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United 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: Bitter Description of subject: Bitter is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals, including sculptor Karl Bitter.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Karl Bitter