David Mumford
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David Mumford is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry and for receiving the Fields Medal in 1974.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Mumford canonical | 3 |
| David Bryant Mumford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9297082 — 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: David Mumford Context triple: [Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity, namedAfter, David Mumford]
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Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in number theory and arithmetic geometry, particularly in the development of the theory of modular forms and contributions to the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
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Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to topology, geometry, and mathematical physics, including the Bott periodicity theorem.
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C.
Michael Shub
Michael Shub is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his influential work in dynamical systems, complexity theory, and cryptography, including co-developing the Blum–Blum–Shub pseudorandom number generator.
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D.
John Knill
John Knill is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by honors such as the William Smith Medal.
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E.
Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Sullivan is an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in topology, dynamical systems, and geometry.
- 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: David Mumford Target entity description: David Mumford is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry and for receiving the Fields Medal in 1974.
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A.
Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in number theory and arithmetic geometry, particularly in the development of the theory of modular forms and contributions to the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
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B.
Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to topology, geometry, and mathematical physics, including the Bott periodicity theorem.
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C.
Michael Shub
Michael Shub is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his influential work in dynamical systems, complexity theory, and cryptography, including co-developing the Blum–Blum–Shub pseudorandom number generator.
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D.
John Knill
John Knill is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the field, as evidenced by honors such as the William Smith Medal.
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E.
Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Sullivan is an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in topology, dynamical systems, and geometry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: David Mumford Description of subject: David Mumford is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry and for receiving the Fields Medal in 1974.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Mumford