John Maynard Smith
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John Maynard Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist renowned for applying game theory to evolution and for his influential work on the mathematical foundations of natural selection.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Maynard Smith canonical | 28 |
| Maynard Smith | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1327212 — 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: John Maynard Smith Context triple: [Darwin–Wallace Medal, notableRecipient, John Maynard Smith]
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J. B. S. Haldane
J. B. S. Haldane was a pioneering British geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work in population genetics helped lay the foundations of modern evolutionary theory.
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William D. Hamilton
William D. Hamilton was a pioneering British evolutionary biologist best known for his work on kin selection and the genetic basis of social behavior.
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C.
Mark Darwin
Mark Darwin is one of the two sons of British former teacher and convicted fraudster John Darwin, who became widely known due to his father's infamous "canoe man" disappearance and insurance scam.
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D.
Geoffrey Simpson
Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
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E.
William L Whittaker
William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
- 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: John Maynard Smith Target entity description: John Maynard Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist renowned for applying game theory to evolution and for his influential work on the mathematical foundations of natural selection.
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A.
J. B. S. Haldane
J. B. S. Haldane was a pioneering British geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work in population genetics helped lay the foundations of modern evolutionary theory.
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B.
William D. Hamilton
William D. Hamilton was a pioneering British evolutionary biologist best known for his work on kin selection and the genetic basis of social behavior.
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C.
Mark Darwin
Mark Darwin is one of the two sons of British former teacher and convicted fraudster John Darwin, who became widely known due to his father's infamous "canoe man" disappearance and insurance scam.
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D.
Geoffrey Simpson
Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
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E.
William L Whittaker
William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: John Maynard Smith Description of subject: John Maynard Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist renowned for applying game theory to evolution and for his influential work on the mathematical foundations of natural selection.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Maynard Smith
subject linked to:
The Theory of Evolution
subject linked to:
John
linked to: John Maynard Smith
subject linked to:
George Christopher Williams
linked to: John Maynard Smith
subject linked to:
“The evolution of reciprocal altruism”