John Greenlees Semple
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John Greenlees Semple was a Scottish mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and his influential textbooks on the subject.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Greenlees Semple canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13355461 — 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: John Greenlees Semple Context triple: [Semple, hasNotableBearer, John Greenlees Semple]
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William Sharp
William Sharp was a Scottish poet, biographer, and literary figure of the late 19th century, also known for publishing mystical and Celtic-themed works under the pseudonym Fiona Macleod.
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B.
William Sharp
William Sharp was an 18th-century English surgeon and musician, best known as the brother of abolitionist Granville Sharp and a member of the prominent Sharp family circle.
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C.
William Sharp
William Sharp was a naval officer known for his command of the vessel Golden Grove.
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D.
Caspar Jopling
Caspar Jopling is a British art dealer and Sotheby’s executive known publicly for his marriage to singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding.
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E.
Richard Jobson
Richard Jobson is a Scottish filmmaker and former frontman of the punk band The Skids, known for directing stylish, often gritty independent films.
- 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: John Greenlees Semple Target entity description: John Greenlees Semple was a Scottish mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and his influential textbooks on the subject.
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A.
William Sharp
William Sharp was a Scottish poet, biographer, and literary figure of the late 19th century, also known for publishing mystical and Celtic-themed works under the pseudonym Fiona Macleod.
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B.
William Sharp
William Sharp was an 18th-century English surgeon and musician, best known as the brother of abolitionist Granville Sharp and a member of the prominent Sharp family circle.
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C.
William Sharp
William Sharp was a naval officer known for his command of the vessel Golden Grove.
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D.
Caspar Jopling
Caspar Jopling is a British art dealer and Sotheby’s executive known publicly for his marriage to singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding.
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E.
Richard Jobson
Richard Jobson is a Scottish filmmaker and former frontman of the punk band The Skids, known for directing stylish, often gritty independent films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
algebraic geometer
ⓘ
human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge University
University of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| employer |
King's College London
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linked to:
King’s College London
Queen's University Belfast ⓘ
linked to:
Queen’s University Belfast
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| fieldOfWork |
algebraic geometry
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mathematics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | textbooks on algebraic geometry ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Algebraic Curves
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Algebraic Geometry (with G. T. Kneebone) ⓘ Algebraic Projective Geometry ⓘ Introduction to Algebraic Geometry ⓘ |
| occupation | university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of mathematics ⓘ |
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: John Greenlees Semple Description of subject: John Greenlees Semple was a Scottish mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and his influential textbooks on the subject.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.