János Bolyai
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János Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician renowned as one of the independent founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| János Bolyai canonical | 7 |
| Johann Bolyai | 1 |
| János Jánosfi Bolyai | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10055815 — 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: János Bolyai Context triple: [Nikolai Lobachevsky, influenced, János Bolyai]
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Nikolai Lobachevsky
Nikolai Lobachevsky was a Russian mathematician renowned as a founder of non-Euclidean geometry, whose work revolutionized the understanding of space and geometry.
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Jakob Steiner
Jakob Steiner was a 19th-century Swiss mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to projective geometry and synthetic geometry.
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Julius König
Julius König was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in set theory, logic, and the foundations of mathematics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Bernard Bolzano
Bernard Bolzano was a 19th-century Bohemian mathematician, logician, and philosopher whose rigorous work in logic, analysis, and the foundations of mathematics anticipated modern analytic philosophy and influenced later thinkers such as Edmund Husserl.
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a 19th-century German mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, number theory, and differential equations.
- 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: János Bolyai Target entity description: János Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician renowned as one of the independent founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
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Nikolai Lobachevsky
Nikolai Lobachevsky was a Russian mathematician renowned as a founder of non-Euclidean geometry, whose work revolutionized the understanding of space and geometry.
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B.
Jakob Steiner
Jakob Steiner was a 19th-century Swiss mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to projective geometry and synthetic geometry.
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C.
Julius König
Julius König was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in set theory, logic, and the foundations of mathematics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Bernard Bolzano
Bernard Bolzano was a 19th-century Bohemian mathematician, logician, and philosopher whose rigorous work in logic, analysis, and the foundations of mathematics anticipated modern analytic philosophy and influenced later thinkers such as Edmund Husserl.
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a 19th-century German mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, number theory, and differential equations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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Instruction
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Subject: János Bolyai Description of subject: János Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician renowned as one of the independent founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
Referenced by (9)
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