Herbert Edelsbrunner
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Herbert Edelsbrunner is a computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to computational geometry and topological data analysis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert Edelsbrunner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507423 — 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: Herbert Edelsbrunner Context triple: [Micha Sharir, hasCoAuthor, Herbert Edelsbrunner]
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A.
José O’Rourke
José O’Rourke is a supporting character in the 1949 MGM musical romantic comedy film "Neptune’s Daughter."
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B.
Hans-Peter Kriegel
Hans-Peter Kriegel is a German computer scientist renowned for his influential contributions to data mining and database systems, particularly in clustering and similarity search.
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C.
Erich Klein
Erich Klein was the son of influential psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, about whom relatively little is documented beyond his familial connection.
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D.
John Knill
John Knill is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by honors such as the William Smith Medal.
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E.
Micha Sharir
Micha Sharir is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician known for his influential work in computational geometry and discrete mathematics.
- 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: Herbert Edelsbrunner Target entity description: Herbert Edelsbrunner is a computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to computational geometry and topological data analysis.
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A.
José O’Rourke
José O’Rourke is a supporting character in the 1949 MGM musical romantic comedy film "Neptune’s Daughter."
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B.
Hans-Peter Kriegel
Hans-Peter Kriegel is a German computer scientist renowned for his influential contributions to data mining and database systems, particularly in clustering and similarity search.
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C.
Erich Klein
Erich Klein was the son of influential psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, about whom relatively little is documented beyond his familial connection.
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D.
John Knill
John Knill is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by honors such as the William Smith Medal.
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E.
Micha Sharir
Micha Sharir is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician known for his influential work in computational geometry and discrete mathematics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| almaMater | Graz University of Technology ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AAAS Fellow
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ACM Fellow ⓘ Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ⓘ Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ⓘ National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women and Science and Engineering (co-PI, institutional) ⓘ National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award ⓘ Zacharias Frankel Award ⓘ |
| citizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Austria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-03-14 ⓘ |
| degree | PhD in technical mathematics ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Helmut Pottmann ⓘ |
| employer |
Duke University
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria ⓘ |
| field |
computational geometry
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computational topology ⓘ computer science ⓘ discrete geometry ⓘ topological data analysis ⓘ |
| founded | Geomagic ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicPosition |
former professor at Duke University
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professor at Institute of Science and Technology Austria ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Delaunay triangulations
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algorithms in discrete and computational geometry ⓘ alpha shapes ⓘ computational topology ⓘ foundational work in computational geometry ⓘ foundational work in topological data analysis ⓘ persistent homology ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
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Austrian Academy of Sciences ⓘ German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ⓘ |
| name | Herbert Edelsbrunner ⓘ |
| nationality | Austrian ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
alpha complex
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linked to:
Čech complex
alpha shape ⓘ persistent homology ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Algorithms in Combinatorial Geometry
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Computational Topology: An Introduction ⓘ Geometry and Topology for Mesh Generation ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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researcher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Graz ⓘ |
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: Herbert Edelsbrunner Description of subject: Herbert Edelsbrunner is a computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to computational geometry and topological data analysis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.