Hoste
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Hoste is a mathematician known for his contributions to knot theory, including work related to the HOMFLY-PT polynomial.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hoste canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7450470 — 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: Hoste Context triple: [HOMFLY-PT polynomial, namedAfter, Hoste]
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A.
d’Hostun
d’Hostun is a French noble family name historically associated with military leaders such as Marshal Tallard.
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B.
Hospodar
Hospodar was a historical title used for princes or rulers in Eastern European principalities, particularly in the Danubian regions.
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C.
Germanotta
Germanotta is the Italian-origin surname of American pop icon Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) and her family.
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D.
Tortorella
Tortorella is the surname of John Tortorella, a prominent National Hockey League coach known for his fiery personality and defensive coaching style.
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E.
Mezzetin
Mezzetin is a painting by Antoine Watteau depicting a melancholic commedia dell’arte musician in a theatrical, romantic setting.
- 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: Hoste Target entity description: Hoste is a mathematician known for his contributions to knot theory, including work related to the HOMFLY-PT polynomial.
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A.
d’Hostun
d’Hostun is a French noble family name historically associated with military leaders such as Marshal Tallard.
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B.
Hospodar
Hospodar was a historical title used for princes or rulers in Eastern European principalities, particularly in the Danubian regions.
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C.
Germanotta
Germanotta is the Italian-origin surname of American pop icon Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) and her family.
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D.
Tortorella
Tortorella is the surname of John Tortorella, a prominent National Hockey League coach known for his fiery personality and defensive coaching style.
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E.
Mezzetin
Mezzetin is a painting by Antoine Watteau depicting a melancholic commedia dell’arte musician in a theatrical, romantic setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | mathematician ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
knot theory
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topology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to knot theory
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work related to the HOMFLY-PT polynomial ⓘ |
| notableWork |
classification of knots
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computations of knot polynomials ⓘ research on the HOMFLY-PT polynomial ⓘ |
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: Hoste Description of subject: Hoste is a mathematician known for his contributions to knot theory, including work related to the HOMFLY-PT polynomial.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.