Jim Hoste
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Jim Hoste is a mathematician known for his contributions to knot theory, including co-introducing the HOMFLY-PT polynomial invariant.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Hoste canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7450494 — 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: Jim Hoste Context triple: [HOMFLY-PT polynomial, introducedBy, Jim Hoste]
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A.
Ken Hodges
Ken Hodges was a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous film and television productions from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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B.
Tim Latta
Tim Latta is a soccer executive best known for serving as the general manager of the early Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wiz (now Sporting Kansas City).
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C.
Dennis Yost
Dennis Yost was an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s soft rock group Classics IV, noted for hits like "Spooky" and "Traces."
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D.
Jim Cunningham
Jim Cunningham is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including a fictional motivational speaker in the film "Donnie Darko" and various real-life professionals in sports, politics, and media.
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E.
Jim Garrett
Jim Garrett was an American football coach and scout best known as the father of former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett.
- 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: Jim Hoste Target entity description: Jim Hoste is a mathematician known for his contributions to knot theory, including co-introducing the HOMFLY-PT polynomial invariant.
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A.
Ken Hodges
Ken Hodges was a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous film and television productions from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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B.
Tim Latta
Tim Latta is a soccer executive best known for serving as the general manager of the early Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wiz (now Sporting Kansas City).
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C.
Dennis Yost
Dennis Yost was an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s soft rock group Classics IV, noted for hits like "Spooky" and "Traces."
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D.
Jim Cunningham
Jim Cunningham is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including a fictional motivational speaker in the film "Donnie Darko" and various real-life professionals in sports, politics, and media.
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E.
Jim Garrett
Jim Garrett was an American football coach and scout best known as the father of former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mathematician
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polynomial invariant ⓘ |
| coIntroduced | HOMFLY-PT polynomial ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Hoste ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
knot theory
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knot theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Jim ⓘ |
| knownFor |
HOMFLY-PT polynomial
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knot theory ⓘ |
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: Jim Hoste Description of subject: Jim Hoste is a mathematician known for his contributions to knot theory, including co-introducing the HOMFLY-PT polynomial invariant.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.