Warren Weaver
E27091
Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator known for his influential work in communication theory and for helping popularize Claude Shannon’s information theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Warren Weaver canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T26952 — 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: Warren Weaver Context triple: [Claude Shannon, coAuthorWith, Warren Weaver]
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A.
Jerome Wiesner
Jerome Wiesner was an American engineer, science advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and influential MIT president known for his leadership in science policy and technology innovation.
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B.
John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
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C.
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
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D.
Albert W. Tucker
Albert W. Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician best known for his influential work in game theory and topology, including formulating the Prisoner’s Dilemma and mentoring John Nash.
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E.
Karl T. Compton
Karl T. Compton was an American physicist and influential science administrator who served as president of MIT and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific efforts during World War II.
- 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: Warren Weaver Target entity description: Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator known for his influential work in communication theory and for helping popularize Claude Shannon’s information theory.
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A.
Jerome Wiesner
Jerome Wiesner was an American engineer, science advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and influential MIT president known for his leadership in science policy and technology innovation.
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B.
John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
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C.
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
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D.
Albert W. Tucker
Albert W. Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician best known for his influential work in game theory and topology, including formulating the Prisoner’s Dilemma and mentoring John Nash.
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E.
Karl T. Compton
Karl T. Compton was an American physicist and influential science administrator who served as president of MIT and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific efforts during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ science administrator ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Claude Shannon ⓘ |
| contributedTo | mathematical theory of communication ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Weaver ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
communication theory
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information theory ⓘ mathematics ⓘ science administration ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Warren ⓘ |
| helpedPopularize | information theory ⓘ |
| influencedField |
communication studies
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information science ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Warren Weaver self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing Claude Shannon’s information theory
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work in communication theory ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
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science administrator ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
communication theory
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information theory ⓘ |
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: Warren Weaver Description of subject: Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator known for his influential work in communication theory and for helping popularize Claude Shannon’s information theory.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.