Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College
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The Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College is a distinguished endowed faculty chair in mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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| Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6834188 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College Context triple: [Dusa McDuff, positionHeld, Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College]
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Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Cathleen Synge Morawetz was a Canadian-born American mathematician renowned for her pioneering work in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, particularly in the study of transonic flow.
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Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian-born mathematician renowned for her work in algebra, matrix theory, and number theory, and for her influential role in mid-20th-century mathematical research and education.
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C.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in complexity theory, real computation, and advocacy for women in STEM.
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D.
Kate Starbird
Kate Starbird is a former American basketball star and All-American guard who led Stanford University to multiple deep NCAA Tournament runs in the 1990s before playing professionally and later becoming an academic researcher.
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Helene Weyl
Helene Weyl was a German translator, writer, and intellectual known for her work in bringing Spanish and Latin American literature to German audiences and for her role in European literary and cultural circles in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College Target entity description: The Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College is a distinguished endowed faculty chair in mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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A.
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Cathleen Synge Morawetz was a Canadian-born American mathematician renowned for her pioneering work in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, particularly in the study of transonic flow.
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B.
Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian-born mathematician renowned for her work in algebra, matrix theory, and number theory, and for her influential role in mid-20th-century mathematical research and education.
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C.
Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in complexity theory, real computation, and advocacy for women in STEM.
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D.
Kate Starbird
Kate Starbird is a former American basketball star and All-American guard who led Stanford University to multiple deep NCAA Tournament runs in the 1990s before playing professionally and later becoming an academic researcher.
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E.
Helene Weyl
Helene Weyl was a German translator, writer, and intellectual known for her work in bringing Spanish and Latin American literature to German audiences and for her role in European literary and cultural circles in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic chair
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endowed professorship ⓘ |
| academicInstitution | Barnard College ⓘ |
| academicLevel | faculty ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Columbia University ⓘ |
| associatedCollegeClassYearInName | Class of 1942 ⓘ |
| associatedPersonRole | benefactor ⓘ |
| college | Barnard College ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| discipline | mathematics ⓘ |
| field | mathematics ⓘ |
| institutionGenderFocus | women's college ⓘ |
| institutionType | liberal arts college ⓘ |
| isEndowed | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Helen Lyttle Kimmel ⓘ |
| partOf | Department of Mathematics at Barnard College ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| typeOfPosition | distinguished professorship ⓘ |
| university | Columbia University ⓘ |
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: Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College Description of subject: The Helen Lyttle Kimmel ’42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College is a distinguished endowed faculty chair in mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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