Ian Stewart
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Ian Stewart is a British mathematician and prolific popular science writer known for his engaging books and articles on mathematics and its applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ian Stewart canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T308289 — 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: Ian Stewart Context triple: [Martin Gardner, influenced, Ian Stewart]
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A.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
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B.
David C. Acheson
David C. Acheson is an American lawyer and former government official who served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
David Alan Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the famous Stevenson family, responsible for many lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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E.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
- 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: Ian Stewart Target entity description: Ian Stewart is a British mathematician and prolific popular science writer known for his engaging books and articles on mathematics and its applications.
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A.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
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B.
David C. Acheson
David C. Acheson is an American lawyer and former government official who served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
David Alan Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the famous Stevenson family, responsible for many lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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E.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Ian Stewart Description of subject: Ian Stewart is a British mathematician and prolific popular science writer known for his engaging books and articles on mathematics and its applications.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.