Robert Krasny
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Robert Krasny is an American applied mathematician known for his work in fluid dynamics and vortex methods.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Krasny canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1861699 — 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: Robert Krasny Context triple: [Norman J. Zabusky, notableStudent, Robert Krasny]
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A.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Paul Grilley
Paul Grilley is a yoga teacher best known for popularizing Yin Yoga and for his influential work on anatomy and skeletal variation in yoga practice.
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C.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
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D.
Chris Malachowsky
Chris Malachowsky is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of NVIDIA, a leading technology company in graphics processing and AI computing.
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E.
Abe Pollin
Abe Pollin was an American real estate developer and sports executive best known for owning multiple Washington, D.C. professional sports franchises and for financing and building the Capital Centre and later the MCI Center (now Capital One Arena).
- 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: Robert Krasny Target entity description: Robert Krasny is an American applied mathematician known for his work in fluid dynamics and vortex methods.
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A.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Paul Grilley
Paul Grilley is a yoga teacher best known for popularizing Yin Yoga and for his influential work on anatomy and skeletal variation in yoga practice.
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C.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
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D.
Chris Malachowsky
Chris Malachowsky is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of NVIDIA, a leading technology company in graphics processing and AI computing.
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E.
Abe Pollin
Abe Pollin was an American real estate developer and sports executive best known for owning multiple Washington, D.C. professional sports franchises and for financing and building the Capital Centre and later the MCI Center (now Capital One Arena).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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applied mathematician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| affiliation | Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| familyName |
Krasny
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linked to:
Krasnov
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| fieldOfWork |
applied mathematics
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fluid dynamics ⓘ vortex methods ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
computational fluid dynamics
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mathematics ⓘ |
| hasRole |
faculty member at the University of Michigan
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researcher in vortex dynamics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
research in fluid dynamics
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research on vortex methods ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
numerical simulation of incompressible flows
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regularization methods for vortex dynamics ⓘ vortex filament methods ⓘ vortex sheet dynamics ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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linked to:
Ann Arbor
|
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: Robert Krasny Description of subject: Robert Krasny is an American applied mathematician known for his work in fluid dynamics and vortex methods.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.