Irving Glicksberg
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Irving Glicksberg was an American mathematician known for his contributions to functional analysis and fixed-point theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Irving Glicksberg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1149222 — 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: Irving Glicksberg Context triple: [Glicksberg fixed-point theorem, namedAfter, Irving Glicksberg]
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A.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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B.
Frank Owen Goldberg
Frank Owen Goldberg, better known as Frank Gehry, is a renowned Canadian-American architect celebrated for his innovative, deconstructivist designs such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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C.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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D.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
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E.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is a neurotic, bespectacled Jewish pharmacist and recurring comic relief character on the animated television series Family Guy.
- 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: Irving Glicksberg Target entity description: Irving Glicksberg was an American mathematician known for his contributions to functional analysis and fixed-point theory.
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A.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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B.
Frank Owen Goldberg
Frank Owen Goldberg, better known as Frank Gehry, is a renowned Canadian-American architect celebrated for his innovative, deconstructivist designs such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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C.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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D.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
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E.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is a neurotic, bespectacled Jewish pharmacist and recurring comic relief character on the animated television series Family Guy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American mathematician
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mathematician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork |
fixed-point theory
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functional analysis ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to fixed-point theory
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contributions to functional analysis ⓘ |
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: Irving Glicksberg Description of subject: Irving Glicksberg was an American mathematician known for his contributions to functional analysis and fixed-point theory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.