Hewish
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Hewish is an English surname most notably associated with astrophysicist Antony Hewish, a Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16427387 — 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: Hewish Context triple: [Antony Hewish, familyName, Hewish]
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A.
Eddington
Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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B.
Eddington
Eddington is a small town in Penobscot County, Maine, known for its rural character and proximity to the Bangor metropolitan area.
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C.
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown was a British physicist and radio astronomer best known for pioneering intensity interferometry, which led to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect and advanced the measurement of stellar diameters.
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D.
Harold Spencer Jones
Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
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E.
Halton Arp
Halton Arp was an American astronomer best known for his influential Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies and his controversial challenges to the standard cosmological redshift-distance interpretation.
- 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: Hewish Target entity description: Hewish is an English surname most notably associated with astrophysicist Antony Hewish, a Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
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A.
Eddington
Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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B.
Eddington
Eddington is a small town in Penobscot County, Maine, known for its rural character and proximity to the Bangor metropolitan area.
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C.
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown was a British physicist and radio astronomer best known for pioneering intensity interferometry, which led to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect and advanced the measurement of stellar diameters.
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D.
Harold Spencer Jones
Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
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E.
Halton Arp
Halton Arp was an American astronomer best known for his influential Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies and his controversial challenges to the standard cosmological redshift-distance interpretation.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.