Jeffrey Brock
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Jeffrey Brock is an American mathematician known for his contributions to low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry, as well as for his leadership roles in academic institutions.
All labels observed (1)
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| Jeffrey Brock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7749278 — 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: Jeffrey Brock Context triple: [Brock, hasNotableBearer, Jeffrey Brock]
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A.
Jeffrey L. Fisher
Jeffrey L. Fisher is a prominent American appellate lawyer and Stanford Law School professor best known for arguing numerous significant cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly in the areas of criminal procedure and constitutional law.
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B.
Alex De Rakoff
Alex De Rakoff is a British film and music video director known for his work on high-profile pop videos and feature films.
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C.
Jeffrey A. Jacobs
Jeffrey A. Jacobs is one of the sons of Irwin M. Jacobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm.
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D.
Michael Glouberman
Michael Glouberman is a television writer and producer best known for his work on the acclaimed sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle."
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E.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
- 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: Jeffrey Brock Target entity description: Jeffrey Brock is an American mathematician known for his contributions to low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry, as well as for his leadership roles in academic institutions.
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A.
Jeffrey L. Fisher
Jeffrey L. Fisher is a prominent American appellate lawyer and Stanford Law School professor best known for arguing numerous significant cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly in the areas of criminal procedure and constitutional law.
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B.
Alex De Rakoff
Alex De Rakoff is a British film and music video director known for his work on high-profile pop videos and feature films.
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C.
Jeffrey A. Jacobs
Jeffrey A. Jacobs is one of the sons of Irwin M. Jacobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm.
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D.
Michael Glouberman
Michael Glouberman is a television writer and producer best known for his work on the acclaimed sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle."
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E.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American mathematician
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics
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PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Curtis T. McMullen ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Brown University
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Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Brock ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Kleinian groups
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linked to:
Kleinian group
Teichmüller theory ⓘ geometric topology ⓘ hyperbolic geometry ⓘ low-dimensional topology ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeffrey ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
Weil–Petersson geometry
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linked to:
Weil–Petersson metric
dynamics of Kleinian groups ⓘ geometric structures on 3-manifolds ⓘ geometry of Teichmüller space ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Mathematical Society
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mathematical research community in low-dimensional topology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to hyperbolic geometry
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contributions to low-dimensional topology ⓘ work on the Weil–Petersson metric ⓘ work on the geometry of 3-manifolds ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Ian Agol (as a mathematical collaborator, not necessarily student)
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linked to:
Ian Agol
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| occupation |
academic administrator
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university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chair of the Department of Mathematics at Brown University
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dean of science at Yale University ⓘ dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University ⓘ founding dean of the Division of Science at Yale University ⓘ professor of mathematics at Brown University ⓘ professor of mathematics at Yale University ⓘ |
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: Jeffrey Brock Description of subject: Jeffrey Brock is an American mathematician known for his contributions to low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry, as well as for his leadership roles in academic institutions.
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