Imre Bárány
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Imre Bárány is a Hungarian mathematician renowned for his contributions to combinatorial geometry, convexity, and probability theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Imre Bárány canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11440045 — 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: Imre Bárány Context triple: [C. A. Rogers, doctoralStudent, Imre Bárány]
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A.
János Szentágothai
János Szentágothai was a prominent Hungarian neuroscientist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research on the structure and function of the brain.
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B.
Pál Losonczi
Pál Losonczi was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1967 to 1987, effectively acting as the country's head of state.
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C.
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy was a Hungarian mathematician renowned for his contributions to functional analysis and operator theory.
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D.
Pál Kalmár
Pál Kalmár was a Hungarian singer best known for his early and influential recording of the melancholic song "Gloomy Sunday."
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E.
László Endre
László Endre was a Hungarian politician and senior interior ministry official who played a leading role in organizing and overseeing the deportation of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
- 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: Imre Bárány Target entity description: Imre Bárány is a Hungarian mathematician renowned for his contributions to combinatorial geometry, convexity, and probability theory.
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A.
János Szentágothai
János Szentágothai was a prominent Hungarian neuroscientist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research on the structure and function of the brain.
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B.
Pál Losonczi
Pál Losonczi was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1967 to 1987, effectively acting as the country's head of state.
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C.
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy was a Hungarian mathematician renowned for his contributions to functional analysis and operator theory.
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D.
Pál Kalmár
Pál Kalmár was a Hungarian singer best known for his early and influential recording of the melancholic song "Gloomy Sunday."
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E.
László Endre
László Endre was a Hungarian politician and senior interior ministry official who played a leading role in organizing and overseeing the deportation of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hungarian mathematician
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fulkerson Prize
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Lanchester Prize ⓘ Széchenyi Prize ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Hungary ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Eötvös Loránd University ⓘ |
| employer |
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
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University College London ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
combinatorial geometry
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combinatorics ⓘ convex geometry ⓘ discrete geometry ⓘ mathematics ⓘ probability theory ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Bárány ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Imre ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hungarian Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Hungarian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
results in combinatorial geometry
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results in convexity ⓘ results in probabilistic methods in geometry ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bárány’s theorem on the Carathéodory number of convex sets
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results on colorful Carathéodory theorem ⓘ results on selection theorems in convex geometry ⓘ work on random polytopes ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor at University College London
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researcher at Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics ⓘ |
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: Imre Bárány Description of subject: Imre Bárány is a Hungarian mathematician renowned for his contributions to combinatorial geometry, convexity, and probability theory.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.