Karl Rolvaag
E671385
Karl Rolvaag was a Norwegian-American politician who served as the 31st governor of Minnesota in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karl Rolvaag canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7547719 — 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: Karl Rolvaag Context triple: [Lakewood Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Karl Rolvaag]
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A.
Vilhelm Moberg
Vilhelm Moberg was a prominent Swedish author and journalist best known for his epic series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America, including "The Emigrants."
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B.
Alexander Kielland
Alexander Kielland was a prominent 19th-century Norwegian realist writer and one of the country's major classical authors, known for his socially critical novels and short stories.
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C.
Ellinor Hamsun
Ellinor Hamsun was a daughter of the Norwegian Nobel Prize–winning author Knut Hamsun.
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D.
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate best known for her medieval trilogy "Kristin Lavransdatter."
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E.
Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi was a 19th-century Finnish author widely regarded as the national writer of Finland and best known for his novel "Seven Brothers," one of the first significant works of Finnish-language literature.
- 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: Karl Rolvaag Target entity description: Karl Rolvaag was a Norwegian-American politician who served as the 31st governor of Minnesota in the 1960s.
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A.
Vilhelm Moberg
Vilhelm Moberg was a prominent Swedish author and journalist best known for his epic series of novels about Swedish emigrants to America, including "The Emigrants."
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B.
Alexander Kielland
Alexander Kielland was a prominent 19th-century Norwegian realist writer and one of the country's major classical authors, known for his socially critical novels and short stories.
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C.
Ellinor Hamsun
Ellinor Hamsun was a daughter of the Norwegian Nobel Prize–winning author Knut Hamsun.
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D.
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate best known for her medieval trilogy "Kristin Lavransdatter."
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E.
Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi was a 19th-century Finnish author widely regarded as the national writer of Finland and best known for his novel "Seven Brothers," one of the first significant works of Finnish-language literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| appointedAs | United States Ambassador to Iceland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Northfield, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Alzheimer's disease ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-07-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-12-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St. Olaf College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1967-01-02 ⓘ |
| endTimeAsAmbassadorToIceland | 1969 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Norwegian-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Rolvaag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Ole Edvart Rølvaag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Karl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Norwegian ⓘ |
| middleName | Fritjof NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Karl Fritjof Rolvaag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Service as 31st Governor of Minnesota ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeAssumedFrom | Elmer L. Andersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officeSucceededBy | Harold LeVander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 31st Governor of Minnesota ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Northfield, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Northfield, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Minnesota
ⓘ
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| residence | Northfield, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Florence Boe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1963-01-08 ⓘ |
| startTimeAsAmbassadorToIceland | 1967 ⓘ |
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: Karl Rolvaag Description of subject: Karl Rolvaag was a Norwegian-American politician who served as the 31st governor of Minnesota in the 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.