Charles Howard Hinton
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Charles Howard Hinton was a British mathematician and writer best known for his pioneering popularizations of the fourth dimension and higher-dimensional geometry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
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| Charles Howard Hinton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6665733 — 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: Charles Howard Hinton Context triple: [Hinton, hasNotableBearer, Charles Howard Hinton]
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Alicia Boole Stott
Alicia Boole Stott was a British mathematician known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional polytopes and for extending her father George Boole’s legacy in mathematics.
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B.
Ray W. Bliss
Ray W. Bliss was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army medical officer whose service and leadership in military medicine led to a major Army health center being named in his honor.
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C.
Melvin Gardner
Melvin Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
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D.
H. S. M. Coxeter
H. S. M. Coxeter was a prominent 20th-century British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in geometry, especially in the study of polytopes and higher-dimensional spaces.
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E.
Max Dehn
Max Dehn was a German mathematician known for his foundational work in topology and group theory, including the introduction of Dehn surgery and the study of decision problems in group theory.
- 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: Charles Howard Hinton Target entity description: Charles Howard Hinton was a British mathematician and writer best known for his pioneering popularizations of the fourth dimension and higher-dimensional geometry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Alicia Boole Stott
Alicia Boole Stott was a British mathematician known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional polytopes and for extending her father George Boole’s legacy in mathematics.
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B.
Ray W. Bliss
Ray W. Bliss was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army medical officer whose service and leadership in military medicine led to a major Army health center being named in his honor.
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C.
Melvin Gardner
Melvin Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner and a member of the Gardner family from North Carolina.
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D.
H. S. M. Coxeter
H. S. M. Coxeter was a prominent 20th-century British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his pioneering work in geometry, especially in the study of polytopes and higher-dimensional spaces.
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E.
Max Dehn
Max Dehn was a German mathematician known for his foundational work in topology and group theory, including the introduction of Dehn surgery and the study of decision problems in group theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ popularizer of science ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1853-11-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral hemorrhage ⓘ |
| conceptIntroduced | tesseract (four-dimensional hypercube) in popular literature ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1907-04-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Balliol College, Oxford
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Oxford University ⓘ
linked to:
University of Oxford
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| employer |
Princeton University
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United States Naval Observatory ⓘ |
| era |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Hinton ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | George Boole ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
geometry
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higher-dimensional geometry ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| genre |
popular science
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science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Howard Everest Hinton ⓘ |
| influenced |
early science fiction about higher dimensions
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popular understanding of four-dimensional space ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| motherInLaw | Mary Everest Boole ⓘ |
| movement | late Victorian scientific romance ⓘ |
| name | Charles Howard Hinton ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularization of higher-dimensional geometry
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popularization of the fourth dimension ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A New Era of Thought
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Scientific Romances ⓘ The Fourth Dimension ⓘ What is the Fourth Dimension? ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
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teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Ellen Boole ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Japan
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United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Charles Howard Hinton Description of subject: Charles Howard Hinton was a British mathematician and writer best known for his pioneering popularizations of the fourth dimension and higher-dimensional geometry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.