Tozzer
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Tozzer is a surname most notably associated with Alfred Marston Tozzer, an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tozzer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T609079 — 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: Tozzer Context triple: [Alfred Marston Tozzer, familyName, Tozzer]
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A.
Soral
Soral is a small rural municipality in southwestern Switzerland, located in the canton of Geneva near the French border.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Bladon
Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
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D.
Tobalaba
Tobalaba is a major Santiago Metro station in Chile that serves as an important transfer point between multiple lines in the city’s rapid transit network.
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E.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
- 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: Tozzer Target entity description: Tozzer is a surname most notably associated with Alfred Marston Tozzer, an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization.
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A.
Soral
Soral is a small rural municipality in southwestern Switzerland, located in the canton of Geneva near the French border.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Bladon
Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
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D.
Tobalaba
Tobalaba is a major Santiago Metro station in Chile that serves as an important transfer point between multiple lines in the city’s rapid transit network.
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E.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
ⓘ
archaeologist ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
Mesoamerica
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Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Maya studies
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anthropology ⓘ archaeology ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Tozzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| knownFor | pioneering work on Mayan civilization ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
ⓘ
Mayan languages ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
ⓘ
surface form:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard)
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| notableBearer | Alfred Marston Tozzer ⓘ |
| notableWork |
archaeological research in the Maya area
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publications on Maya religion and culture ⓘ translations and studies of Maya texts ⓘ |
| occupation | university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | curator at Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology ⓘ |
| studied |
Maya archaeology
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Maya civilization ⓘ Maya hieroglyphic writing ⓘ |
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: Tozzer Description of subject: Tozzer is a surname most notably associated with Alfred Marston Tozzer, an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alfred Marston Tozzer