Hiram Bingham
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Hiram Bingham was an American explorer and academic best known for bringing international attention to the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hiram Bingham III | 5 |
| Hiram Bingham canonical | 1 |
| Hiram Bingham Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T478849 — 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: Hiram Bingham Context triple: [Machu Picchu, rediscoveredBy, Hiram Bingham]
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A.
Alfred Marston Tozzer
Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
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B.
John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
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C.
Percy Fawcett
Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
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D.
Grove Karl Gilbert
Grove Karl Gilbert was a pioneering American geologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in geomorphology and studies of the western United States.
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E.
Carroll D. Wright
Carroll D. Wright was a prominent American statistician and social reformer who served as the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor and became influential for his pioneering work in labor statistics and industrial relations.
- 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: Hiram Bingham Target entity description: Hiram Bingham was an American explorer and academic best known for bringing international attention to the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in the early 20th century.
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A.
Alfred Marston Tozzer
Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
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B.
John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
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C.
Percy Fawcett
Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
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D.
Grove Karl Gilbert
Grove Karl Gilbert was a pioneering American geologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in geomorphology and studies of the western United States.
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E.
Carroll D. Wright
Carroll D. Wright was a prominent American statistician and social reformer who served as the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor and became influential for his pioneering work in labor statistics and industrial relations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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explorer ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Arlington National Cemetery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1875-11-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1956-06-06 ⓘ |
| discovered |
Machu Picchu
ⓘ
surface form:
Machu Picchu (to the outside world)
|
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Yale University ⓘ |
| explored |
Urubamba
ⓘ
surface form:
Urubamba Valley
Vilcabamba ⓘ
surface form:
Vilcabamba region
|
| familyName | Bingham ⓘ |
| father |
Hiram Bingham I
ⓘ
surface form:
Hiram Bingham II
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| fieldOfWork |
Latin American history
ⓘ
South American exploration ⓘ |
| givenName | Hiram ⓘ |
| heritage | American of missionary descent ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bringing international attention to Machu Picchu
ⓘ
explorations in Peru ⓘ work on Inca archaeology ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| militaryRank | lieutenant colonel ⓘ |
| notableStudentOrTrainee | students of Latin American history at Yale University ⓘ |
| notableWork | Lost City of the Incas ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
ⓘ
explorer ⓘ historian ⓘ politician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| participantIn | World War I ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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surface form:
Honolulu
Kingdom of Hawaii ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Connecticut
ⓘ
United States Senator from Connecticut ⓘ lecturer in South American history ⓘ professor at Yale University ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Alfreda Mitchell ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New Haven, Connecticut
ⓘ
Peru ⓘ |
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: Hiram Bingham Description of subject: Hiram Bingham was an American explorer and academic best known for bringing international attention to the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hiram Bingham III
this entity surface form:
Hiram Bingham Jr.
this entity surface form:
Hiram Bingham III
this entity surface form:
Hiram Bingham III
this entity surface form:
Hiram Bingham III
this entity surface form:
Hiram Bingham III