Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a pioneering 19th-century French mathematician whose rigorous foundations for calculus and complex analysis profoundly shaped modern mathematics.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augustin-Louis Cauchy canonical | 31 |
| Cauchy | 3 |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy (via Cauchy problem terminology) | 1 |
| Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T373801 — 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: Augustin-Louis Cauchy Context triple: [Bernhard Riemann, influencedBy, Augustin-Louis Cauchy]
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Karl Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass was a 19th-century German mathematician renowned as a founder of modern analysis, particularly for his rigorous formulation of calculus and the theory of functions.
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B.
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel was a pioneering 19th-century Norwegian mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in algebra and analysis, including proving the insolvability of the general quintic equation by radicals.
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist best known for pioneering the theory of heat conduction and developing Fourier series, which laid the foundations of modern Fourier analysis.
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D.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange was an 18th-century mathematician and astronomer renowned for his foundational contributions to analysis, number theory, and classical mechanics, including the formulation of Lagrangian mechanics.
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Bernhard Riemann
Bernhard Riemann was a 19th-century German mathematician whose groundbreaking work in analysis, number theory, and differential geometry laid the foundations for modern mathematics and general relativity.
- 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: Augustin-Louis Cauchy Target entity description: Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a pioneering 19th-century French mathematician whose rigorous foundations for calculus and complex analysis profoundly shaped modern mathematics.
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A.
Karl Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass was a 19th-century German mathematician renowned as a founder of modern analysis, particularly for his rigorous formulation of calculus and the theory of functions.
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B.
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel was a pioneering 19th-century Norwegian mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in algebra and analysis, including proving the insolvability of the general quintic equation by radicals.
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C.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist best known for pioneering the theory of heat conduction and developing Fourier series, which laid the foundations of modern Fourier analysis.
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D.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange was an 18th-century mathematician and astronomer renowned for his foundational contributions to analysis, number theory, and classical mechanics, including the formulation of Lagrangian mechanics.
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E.
Bernhard Riemann
Bernhard Riemann was a 19th-century German mathematician whose groundbreaking work in analysis, number theory, and differential geometry laid the foundations for modern mathematics and general relativity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
How these facts were elicited
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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.
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Subject: Augustin-Louis Cauchy Description of subject: Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a pioneering 19th-century French mathematician whose rigorous foundations for calculus and complex analysis profoundly shaped modern mathematics.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy
this entity surface form:
Cauchy
this entity surface form:
Cauchy
subject surface form:
Claude-Louis Navier
subject surface form:
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
this entity surface form:
Cauchy
this entity surface form:
Augustin-Louis Cauchy (via Cauchy problem terminology)