Peter Hintz
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Peter Hintz is a mathematician known for his work in partial differential equations and general relativity, particularly on the analysis of wave equations on black hole spacetimes.
All labels observed (1)
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| Peter Hintz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6459201 — 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: Peter Hintz Context triple: [András Vasy, notableStudent, Peter Hintz]
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A.
Peter Vinnemeier
Peter Vinnemeier is a German entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global hotel search and price comparison platform Trivago.
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B.
Paul Knabenshue
Paul Knabenshue was an American diplomat best known for serving as the first U.S. Ambassador to Iraq in the early 20th century.
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C.
Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger is an Austrian composer and musician known for his work on film, television, and video game scores, as well as for being a former member of the electronic music group Tangerine Dream.
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D.
Tony Rettenmaier
Tony Rettenmaier is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the sci-fi mystery film "They Cloned Tyrone."
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E.
Paul Schmidt
Paul Schmidt is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as science, sports, and the arts.
- 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: Peter Hintz Target entity description: Peter Hintz is a mathematician known for his work in partial differential equations and general relativity, particularly on the analysis of wave equations on black hole spacetimes.
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A.
Peter Vinnemeier
Peter Vinnemeier is a German entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global hotel search and price comparison platform Trivago.
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B.
Paul Knabenshue
Paul Knabenshue was an American diplomat best known for serving as the first U.S. Ambassador to Iraq in the early 20th century.
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C.
Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger is an Austrian composer and musician known for his work on film, television, and video game scores, as well as for being a former member of the electronic music group Tangerine Dream.
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D.
Tony Rettenmaier
Tony Rettenmaier is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the sci-fi mystery film "They Cloned Tyrone."
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E.
Paul Schmidt
Paul Schmidt is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as science, sports, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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linked to:
MIT Department of Mathematics
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| almaMater | University of Bonn ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Johannes Sjöstrand ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Bonn ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
general relativity
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geometric analysis ⓘ mathematics ⓘ microlocal analysis ⓘ partial differential equations ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Johannes Sjöstrand ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
Einstein equations
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linked to:
Einstein field equations
black hole spacetimes ⓘ hyperbolic partial differential equations ⓘ scattering theory ⓘ spectral theory of differential operators ⓘ wave propagation in curved spacetimes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analysis of wave equations on black hole spacetimes
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resolvent estimates for geometric differential operators ⓘ work on stability problems in general relativity ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
papers on nonlinear stability in general relativity
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papers on wave equations on Kerr–de Sitter spacetimes ⓘ |
| occupation | professor of mathematics ⓘ |
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.
Input
Subject: Peter Hintz Description of subject: Peter Hintz is a mathematician known for his work in partial differential equations and general relativity, particularly on the analysis of wave equations on black hole spacetimes.
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