John William Scott Cassels
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John William Scott Cassels was a Scottish mathematician renowned for his influential work in number theory and Diophantine approximation.
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| John William Scott Cassels canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John William Scott Cassels Context triple: [J. W. S. Cassels, name, John William Scott Cassels]
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A.
Richard Cassels
Richard Cassels was an 18th-century Palladian architect who became one of Ireland’s most prominent designers of grand country houses and public buildings.
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B.
Robert Cassels
Robert Cassels was a senior British Indian Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief in India during the interwar period.
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C.
John Valentine Carruthers
John Valentine Carruthers is an English guitarist best known for his work in the 1980s with the post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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D.
Arthur Clive Heward Bell
Arthur Clive Heward Bell, known as Clive Bell, was a British art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group, noted for his influential theory of "significant form" in aesthetics.
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E.
William Maharg
William "Billy" Maharg was an early 20th-century American baseball player and later a figure implicated in the 1919 Black Sox World Series game-fixing scandal.
- 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: John William Scott Cassels Target entity description: John William Scott Cassels was a Scottish mathematician renowned for his influential work in number theory and Diophantine approximation.
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A.
Richard Cassels
Richard Cassels was an 18th-century Palladian architect who became one of Ireland’s most prominent designers of grand country houses and public buildings.
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B.
Robert Cassels
Robert Cassels was a senior British Indian Army officer who served as Commander-in-Chief in India during the interwar period.
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C.
John Valentine Carruthers
John Valentine Carruthers is an English guitarist best known for his work in the 1980s with the post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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D.
Arthur Clive Heward Bell
Arthur Clive Heward Bell, known as Clive Bell, was a British art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group, noted for his influential theory of "significant form" in aesthetics.
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E.
William Maharg
William "Billy" Maharg was an early 20th-century American baseball player and later a figure implicated in the 1919 Black Sox World Series game-fixing scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | British school of number theory ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
De Morgan Medal
NERFINISHED
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Senior Berwick Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Louis Mordell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| doctoralStudent |
Bryan Birch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| employer |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Cassels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Diophantine approximation
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Galois cohomology NERFINISHED ⓘ arithmetic geometry ⓘ elliptic curves ⓘ local fields ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bryan Birch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Louis Mordell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Cassels–Tate pairing in arithmetic geometry
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contributions to the arithmetic of elliptic curves ⓘ work in Diophantine approximation ⓘ work in number theory ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Royal Society
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Royal Society of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John William Scott Cassels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Bryan Birch
NERFINISHED
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Peter Swinnerton-Dyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An Introduction to Diophantine Approximation
NERFINISHED
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Cassels–Tate pairing NERFINISHED ⓘ Lectures on Elliptic Curves NERFINISHED ⓘ Local Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ Rational Quadratic Forms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workplace | Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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