George A. Reid
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George A. Reid is a mathematician known for supervising the doctoral work of prominent symplectic topologist Dusa McDuff.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George A. Reid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6834185 — 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: George A. Reid Context triple: [Dusa McDuff, doctoralAdvisor, George A. Reid]
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A.
William Guilfoyle
William Guilfoyle was a 19th-century Australian landscape gardener and botanist best known for transforming Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens into a picturesque, internationally acclaimed garden.
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B.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
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C.
Henry Maitland Wilson
Henry Maitland Wilson was a senior British Army officer and field commander in both World Wars, best known for leading Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres.
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D.
Dr. Wallace C. Abbott
Dr. Wallace C. Abbott was an American physician and pharmaceutical entrepreneur who established the company that grew into the global healthcare corporation Abbott Laboratories.
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E.
George H. Stevenson
George H. Stevenson was a local figure of historical significance in Washington State, likely an early settler or community leader after whom the community of Stevenson, Washington, was named.
- 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: George A. Reid Target entity description: George A. Reid is a mathematician known for supervising the doctoral work of prominent symplectic topologist Dusa McDuff.
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A.
William Guilfoyle
William Guilfoyle was a 19th-century Australian landscape gardener and botanist best known for transforming Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens into a picturesque, internationally acclaimed garden.
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B.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
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C.
Henry Maitland Wilson
Henry Maitland Wilson was a senior British Army officer and field commander in both World Wars, best known for leading Allied forces in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres.
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D.
Dr. Wallace C. Abbott
Dr. Wallace C. Abbott was an American physician and pharmaceutical entrepreneur who established the company that grew into the global healthcare corporation Abbott Laboratories.
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E.
George H. Stevenson
George H. Stevenson was a local figure of historical significance in Washington State, likely an early settler or community leader after whom the community of Stevenson, Washington, was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mathematician ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | George A. Reid ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mathematics
ⓘ
symplectic topology ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | supervising the doctoral work of Dusa McDuff ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Dusa McDuff ⓘ |
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: George A. Reid Description of subject: George A. Reid is a mathematician known for supervising the doctoral work of prominent symplectic topologist Dusa McDuff.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
George A. Reid