Marcus du Sautoy
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Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician and prominent science communicator known for his work in number theory and for popularizing mathematics through books and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcus du Sautoy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7663648 — 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: Marcus du Sautoy Context triple: [Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture, notableRecipient, Marcus du Sautoy]
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A.
Jim Al-Khalili
Jim Al-Khalili is a British-Iraqi theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster known for his popular science books and documentaries that make complex scientific ideas accessible to the public.
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B.
David C. Acheson
David C. Acheson is an American lawyer and former government official who served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Simon Singh
Simon Singh is a British science writer and broadcaster known for his popular books on mathematics and physics, including "Fermat's Last Theorem" and "The Code Book."
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D.
John D. Barrow
John D. Barrow was a British cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and popular science author known for his influential work on the anthropic principle and the mathematical structure of the universe.
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E.
Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart is a British Labour politician who became the inaugural directly elected mayor of the city of Salford.
- 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: Marcus du Sautoy Target entity description: Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician and prominent science communicator known for his work in number theory and for popularizing mathematics through books and television.
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A.
Jim Al-Khalili
Jim Al-Khalili is a British-Iraqi theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster known for his popular science books and documentaries that make complex scientific ideas accessible to the public.
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B.
David C. Acheson
David C. Acheson is an American lawyer and former government official who served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Simon Singh
Simon Singh is a British science writer and broadcaster known for his popular books on mathematics and physics, including "Fermat's Last Theorem" and "The Code Book."
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D.
John D. Barrow
John D. Barrow was a British cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and popular science author known for his influential work on the anthropic principle and the mathematical structure of the universe.
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E.
Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart is a British Labour politician who became the inaugural directly elected mayor of the city of Salford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ science communicator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Berwick Prize
NERFINISHED
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LMS Whitehead Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Officer of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-08-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Oxford
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surface form:
Oxford University
Wadham College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | du Sautoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
group theory
ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ science communication ⓘ |
| genre |
mathematics writing
ⓘ
popular science ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
Riemann zeta function
NERFINISHED
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prime numbers ⓘ symmetry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
popularizing mathematics
ⓘ
television documentaries on mathematics ⓘ work in number theory ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
London Mathematical Society
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Marcus du Sautoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
BBC series "The Beauty of Diagrams"
NERFINISHED
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BBC series "The Code" NERFINISHED ⓘ BBC series "The Story of Maths" NERFINISHED ⓘ Finding Moonshine NERFINISHED ⓘ The Creativity Code NERFINISHED ⓘ The Music of the Primes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Number Mysteries NERFINISHED ⓘ What We Cannot Know NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcaster
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university teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| positionHeld |
Fellow of New College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford ⓘ Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Richard Dawkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Marcus du Sautoy Description of subject: Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician and prominent science communicator known for his work in number theory and for popularizing mathematics through books and television.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.