Brian P. Flannery
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Brian P. Flannery is a physicist and numerical analyst best known as a co-author of the influential scientific computing reference book "Numerical Recipes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brian P. Flannery canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7247700 — 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: Brian P. Flannery Context triple: [William H. Press, coAuthoredWith, Brian P. Flannery]
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A.
Barton Myers
Barton Myers is a Canadian-American architect renowned for his innovative urban infill projects and prominent cultural and civic buildings across North America.
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B.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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C.
John L. Flannery
John L. Flannery is an American business executive who served as chairman and CEO of General Electric, leading the company during a major restructuring period.
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D.
Michael R. Quinlan
Michael R. Quinlan is an American business executive and Loyola University Chicago alumnus best known for serving as CEO and chairman of McDonald’s Corporation.
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E.
Sean S. Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
- 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: Brian P. Flannery Target entity description: Brian P. Flannery is a physicist and numerical analyst best known as a co-author of the influential scientific computing reference book "Numerical Recipes."
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A.
Barton Myers
Barton Myers is a Canadian-American architect renowned for his innovative urban infill projects and prominent cultural and civic buildings across North America.
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B.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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C.
John L. Flannery
John L. Flannery is an American business executive who served as chairman and CEO of General Electric, leading the company during a major restructuring period.
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D.
Michael R. Quinlan
Michael R. Quinlan is an American business executive and Loyola University Chicago alumnus best known for serving as CEO and chairman of McDonald’s Corporation.
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E.
Sean S. Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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numerical analyst ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
"Numerical Recipes in C"
NERFINISHED
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"Numerical Recipes in C++" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Numerical Recipes in Fortran" NERFINISHED ⓘ "Numerical Recipes in Pascal" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | "Numerical Recipes" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith |
Saul A. Teukolsky
NERFINISHED
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William H. Press NERFINISHED ⓘ William T. Vetterling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | development and exposition of numerical algorithms ⓘ |
| field |
numerical analysis
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physics ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| hasExpertiseIn |
computational physics
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numerical methods ⓘ scientific programming ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-authoring the book "Numerical Recipes" ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing practical numerical methods for scientists and engineers ⓘ |
| notableWork | "Numerical Recipes" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
numerical analyst
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physicist ⓘ scientific author ⓘ |
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: Brian P. Flannery Description of subject: Brian P. Flannery is a physicist and numerical analyst best known as a co-author of the influential scientific computing reference book "Numerical Recipes."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William H. Press