Peter Taugwalder senior
E424680
Peter Taugwalder senior was a Swiss mountain guide from Zermatt, best known as one of the climbers on the historic first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Taugwalder Jr. | 1 |
| Peter Taugwalder Sr. | 1 |
| Peter Taugwalder junior | 1 |
| Peter Taugwalder senior canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4255482 — 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: Peter Taugwalder senior Context triple: [Matterhorn, firstAscentBy, Peter Taugwalder senior]
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A.
Max Dudler
Max Dudler is a Swiss-born architect known for his minimalist, rigorously geometric designs that blend modernism with classical proportions, particularly in cultural and institutional buildings across Europe.
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B.
Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz is a German filmmaker and artist best known for his experimental films and architectural documentaries.
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C.
Jürgen Ovens
Jürgen Ovens was a 17th-century German-Danish Baroque painter known for his portraits and history paintings, active primarily in Schleswig and the Netherlands.
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D.
Erich Rothacker
Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
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E.
Reinhard Brundig
Reinhard Brundig is a German film producer known for his work on independent and art-house films, including Jim Jarmusch’s "Only Lovers Left Alive."
- 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: Peter Taugwalder senior Target entity description: Peter Taugwalder senior was a Swiss mountain guide from Zermatt, best known as one of the climbers on the historic first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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A.
Max Dudler
Max Dudler is a Swiss-born architect known for his minimalist, rigorously geometric designs that blend modernism with classical proportions, particularly in cultural and institutional buildings across Europe.
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B.
Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz is a German filmmaker and artist best known for his experimental films and architectural documentaries.
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C.
Jürgen Ovens
Jürgen Ovens was a 17th-century German-Danish Baroque painter known for his portraits and history paintings, active primarily in Schleswig and the Netherlands.
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D.
Erich Rothacker
Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
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E.
Reinhard Brundig
Reinhard Brundig is a German film producer known for his work on independent and art-house films, including Jim Jarmusch’s "Only Lovers Left Alive."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss person
ⓘ
human ⓘ mountain guide ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | participation in historic first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 ⓘ |
| climbed |
Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matterhorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coClimber |
Charles Hudson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Douglas Hadow NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Whymper NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Francis Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Croz NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Taugwalder junior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1820-04-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1888-07-08 ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed mountain guide ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Walser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Taugwalder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Joseph Taugwalder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Taugwalder junior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| knownAs | Peter Taugwalder the elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| memberOf | first-ascent party of the Matterhorn ⓘ |
| name | Peter Taugwalder senior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Swiss ⓘ |
| notableFor | first ascent of the Matterhorn ⓘ |
| occupation |
climber
ⓘ
mountain guide ⓘ |
| participantIn | first ascent of the Matterhorn ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Matterhorn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pennine Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ Zermatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Zermatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Zermatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| residence | Zermatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInExpedition | guide on first ascent of the Matterhorn ⓘ |
| survived | Matterhorn first-ascent accident of 1865 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Peter Taugwalder senior Description of subject: Peter Taugwalder senior was a Swiss mountain guide from Zermatt, best known as one of the climbers on the historic first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Peter Taugwalder junior
this entity surface form:
Peter Taugwalder Sr.
this entity surface form:
Peter Taugwalder Jr.