Weil
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French mathematician
French philologist
French philosopher
German Marxist
German businessman
German orientalist
family name
human
mathematician
surname
Weil is a surname most notably associated with André Weil, a prominent 20th-century French mathematician and co-founder of the Bourbaki group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weil canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2228011 — 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: Weil Context triple: [André Weil, familyName, Weil]
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A.
Weil der Stadt
Weil der Stadt is a historic small town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, best known as the birthplace of the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.
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B.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
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C.
Weinert
Weinert is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as the arts, sciences, and public life.
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D.
Heurich
Heurich is a German surname most notably associated with Christian Heurich, a prominent brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C.
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E.
Miltenberg
Miltenberg is a historic town in Bavaria, Germany, known for its well-preserved medieval old town along the Main River and its timber-framed architecture.
- 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: Weil Target entity description: Weil is a surname most notably associated with André Weil, a prominent 20th-century French mathematician and co-founder of the Bourbaki group.
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A.
Weil der Stadt
Weil der Stadt is a historic small town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, best known as the birthplace of the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.
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B.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
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C.
Weinert
Weinert is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as the arts, sciences, and public life.
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D.
Heurich
Heurich is a German surname most notably associated with Christian Heurich, a prominent brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C.
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E.
Miltenberg
Miltenberg is a historic town in Bavaria, Germany, known for its well-preserved medieval old town along the Main River and its timber-framed architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French mathematician
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French philologist ⓘ French philosopher ⓘ German Marxist ⓘ German businessman ⓘ German orientalist ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Bourbaki group
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linked to:
Bourbaki school of mathematics
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| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| familyName |
Weil
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Weil ⓘ Weil ⓘ Weil ⓘ Weil ⓘ Weil ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algebraic geometry
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algebraic topology ⓘ number theory ⓘ representation theory ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alexandre Weil
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André Weil ⓘ Bernard Weil ⓘ Claude Weil ⓘ Felix Weil ⓘ Gustav Weil ⓘ Henri Weil ⓘ Hermann Weil ⓘ Isaac Weil ⓘ Józef Weil ⓘ Karl Weil ⓘ Martin Weil ⓘ Robert Weil ⓘ Roger Weil ⓘ Simone Weil ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Simone Weil ⓘ |
| knownFor | funding the Institute for Social Research ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
French
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German ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bourbaki group
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linked to:
Bourbaki school of mathematics
|
| notableWork |
Basic Number Theory
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Foundations of Algebraic Geometry ⓘ Weil conjectures ⓘ |
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: Weil Description of subject: Weil is a surname most notably associated with André Weil, a prominent 20th-century French mathematician and co-founder of the Bourbaki group.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.