Carl Peter Thunberg
E396932
Carl Peter Thunberg was an 18th-century Swedish naturalist, botanist, and disciple of Carl Linnaeus, renowned for his extensive plant collections and pioneering botanical work in Japan and South Africa.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carl Peter Thunberg canonical | 5 |
| Carl Pehr Thunberg | 1 |
| Carl Peter Thunberg von Thunberg | 1 |
| Karl Peter Thunberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3912074 — 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: Carl Peter Thunberg Context triple: [Hovenia, describedBy, Carl Peter Thunberg]
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A.
Daniel Solander
Daniel Solander was an 18th-century Swedish naturalist and botanist who accompanied James Cook and Joseph Banks on pioneering scientific explorations in the Pacific.
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B.
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm was an 18th-century Swedish nobleman and scholar best known as one of the founders of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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C.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus was an 18th-century Swedish naturalist who founded modern biological taxonomy by developing the binomial nomenclature system for naming and classifying organisms.
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D.
Carl Rudbeck
Carl Rudbeck is a Swedish writer, critic, and scholar known for his work in literature and cultural commentary.
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E.
Elias Magnus Fries
Elias Magnus Fries was a pioneering 19th-century Swedish mycologist and botanist, often regarded as the father of modern fungal taxonomy.
- 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: Carl Peter Thunberg Target entity description: Carl Peter Thunberg was an 18th-century Swedish naturalist, botanist, and disciple of Carl Linnaeus, renowned for his extensive plant collections and pioneering botanical work in Japan and South Africa.
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A.
Daniel Solander
Daniel Solander was an 18th-century Swedish naturalist and botanist who accompanied James Cook and Joseph Banks on pioneering scientific explorations in the Pacific.
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B.
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm was an 18th-century Swedish nobleman and scholar best known as one of the founders of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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C.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus was an 18th-century Swedish naturalist who founded modern biological taxonomy by developing the binomial nomenclature system for naming and classifying organisms.
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D.
Carl Rudbeck
Carl Rudbeck is a Swedish writer, critic, and scholar known for his work in literature and cultural commentary.
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E.
Elias Magnus Fries
Elias Magnus Fries was a pioneering 19th-century Swedish mycologist and botanist, often regarded as the father of modern fungal taxonomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
botanist
ⓘ
human ⓘ naturalist ⓘ taxonomist ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Carl Peter Thunberg
ⓘ
surface form:
Carl Pehr Thunberg
Carl Peter Thunberg ⓘ
surface form:
Carl Peter Thunberg von Thunberg
Carl Peter Thunberg ⓘ
surface form:
Karl Peter Thunberg
|
| birthDate | 1743-11-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Jönköping
ⓘ
surface form:
Jönköping, Sweden
|
| botanistAuthorAbbreviation | Thunb. ⓘ |
| citizenship | Sweden ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1828-08-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Uppsala
ⓘ
surface form:
Uppsala, Sweden
|
| educatedAt | Uppsala University ⓘ |
| employer | Uppsala University ⓘ |
| era |
18th century
ⓘ
19th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
botany
ⓘ
natural history ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Linnaean taxonomy contributions
ⓘ
extensive plant collections ⓘ introducing Japanese flora to Europe ⓘ pioneering botanical work in Japan ⓘ pioneering botanical work in South Africa ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Latin
ⓘ
Swedish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Royal Society
ⓘ
Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg
Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala ⓘ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name | Carl Peter Thunberg self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Swedish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Flora Capensis
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Flora Japonica ⓘ Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia ⓘ |
| occupation |
botanist
ⓘ
naturalist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of botany at Uppsala University ⓘ |
| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| studentOf | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| traveledTo |
Cape Colony
ⓘ
Sri Lanka ⓘ
surface form:
Ceylon
Japan ⓘ Java ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ South Africa ⓘ |
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: Carl Peter Thunberg Description of subject: Carl Peter Thunberg was an 18th-century Swedish naturalist, botanist, and disciple of Carl Linnaeus, renowned for his extensive plant collections and pioneering botanical work in Japan and South Africa.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Carl Pehr Thunberg
this entity surface form:
Karl Peter Thunberg
this entity surface form:
Carl Peter Thunberg von Thunberg