Augustus De Morgan
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Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Augustus De Morgan canonical | 7 |
| De Morgan | 2 |
| de Morgan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T765652 — 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: Augustus De Morgan Context triple: [Mary Everest Boole, influencedBy, Augustus De Morgan]
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A.
Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
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G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy was a prominent British mathematician renowned for his work in number theory and mathematical analysis, as well as for his influential book "A Mathematician's Apology."
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C.
William Whewell
William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
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George Boole
George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose development of Boolean algebra laid the foundations for modern symbolic logic and digital computer circuits.
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E.
John Venn
John Venn was an English logician and philosopher best known for introducing Venn diagrams, which visually represent logical and set-theoretic relationships.
- 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: Augustus De Morgan Target entity description: Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
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A.
Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
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B.
G. H. Hardy
G. H. Hardy was a prominent British mathematician renowned for his work in number theory and mathematical analysis, as well as for his influential book "A Mathematician's Apology."
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C.
William Whewell
William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
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D.
George Boole
George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose development of Boolean algebra laid the foundations for modern symbolic logic and digital computer circuits.
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E.
John Venn
John Venn was an English logician and philosopher best known for introducing Venn diagrams, which visually represent logical and set-theoretic relationships.
- 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: Augustus De Morgan Description of subject: Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
De Morgan
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De Morgan
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de Morgan