Richard Taylor
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Richard Taylor is a prominent British mathematician known for his contributions to number theory and his collaboration with Andrew Wiles on the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
All labels observed (1)
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| Richard Taylor canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5570522 — 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: Richard Taylor Context triple: [Fermat's Last Theorem, proofCompletedWith, Richard Taylor]
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Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor is a New Zealand special effects and prop designer best known as the co-founder and creative force behind the award-winning Weta Workshop, which worked on films such as The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor was a 19th-century American planter, politician, and Confederate general, best known as the son of U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
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Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor was a 19th-century English printer, publisher, and scientific editor known for his influential role in disseminating scientific and philosophical works.
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Richard E. Taylor
Richard E. Taylor was a Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering deep inelastic scattering experiments at SLAC that provided key evidence for the quark model of subatomic particles.
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James Seymour
James Seymour was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's early sound era, contributing to several notable studio films in the 1930s.
- 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: Richard Taylor Target entity description: Richard Taylor is a prominent British mathematician known for his contributions to number theory and his collaboration with Andrew Wiles on the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
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A.
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor is a New Zealand special effects and prop designer best known as the co-founder and creative force behind the award-winning Weta Workshop, which worked on films such as The Lord of the Rings.
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B.
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor was a 19th-century American planter, politician, and Confederate general, best known as the son of U.S. President Zachary Taylor.
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C.
Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor was a 19th-century English printer, publisher, and scientific editor known for his influential role in disseminating scientific and philosophical works.
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D.
Richard E. Taylor
Richard E. Taylor was a Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering deep inelastic scattering experiments at SLAC that provided key evidence for the quark model of subatomic particles.
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E.
James Seymour
James Seymour was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's early sound era, contributing to several notable studio films in the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | John H. Coates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Cole Prize in Number Theory
NERFINISHED
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SASTRA Ramanujan Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitehead Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolf Prize in Mathematics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1962-05-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| birthYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Andrew Wiles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | proof of Fermat's Last Theorem ⓘ |
| doctoralStudentOf | John H. Coates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTitle | Galois representations associated to Siegel modular forms ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Clare College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer |
California Institute of Technology
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Harvard University ⓘ Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| familyName | Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Galois representations
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arithmetic geometry ⓘ automorphic forms ⓘ number theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Fellow of the Royal Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Taylor–Wiles method
NERFINISHED
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contributions to the Langlands program ⓘ proof of local Langlands conjecture for GL(n) over p-adic fields ⓘ work on Fermat's Last Theorem ⓘ work on Sato–Tate conjecture ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Richard Lawrence Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Laurent Fargues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of mathematics ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
L-functions
NERFINISHED
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Shimura varieties NERFINISHED ⓘ modular forms ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Richard Taylor Description of subject: Richard Taylor is a prominent British mathematician known for his contributions to number theory and his collaboration with Andrew Wiles on the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.