Uhlenbeck
E245787
Uhlenbeck is a surname most prominently associated with Karen Uhlenbeck, a pioneering American mathematician and the first woman to receive the Abel Prize.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uhlenbeck canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2206154 — 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: Uhlenbeck Context triple: [Karen Uhlenbeck, familyName, Uhlenbeck]
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A.
Lindemann
Lindemann is a German surname most notably associated with Ferdinand von Lindemann, the mathematician who proved that π is a transcendental number.
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B.
Guralnik
Guralnik is a surname most notably associated with American theoretical physicist Gerald Guralnik, a co-discoverer of the Higgs mechanism.
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C.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
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D.
Goeppert
Goeppert is the maiden surname of Maria Goeppert Mayer, the German-American physicist and Nobel laureate known for her work on the nuclear shell model.
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E.
Gerlach
Gerlach is a small, remote community in northwestern Nevada best known as the gateway to the Black Rock Desert and the annual Burning Man festival.
- 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: Uhlenbeck Target entity description: Uhlenbeck is a surname most prominently associated with Karen Uhlenbeck, a pioneering American mathematician and the first woman to receive the Abel Prize.
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A.
Lindemann
Lindemann is a German surname most notably associated with Ferdinand von Lindemann, the mathematician who proved that π is a transcendental number.
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B.
Guralnik
Guralnik is a surname most notably associated with American theoretical physicist Gerald Guralnik, a co-discoverer of the Higgs mechanism.
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C.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
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D.
Goeppert
Goeppert is the maiden surname of Maria Goeppert Mayer, the German-American physicist and Nobel laureate known for her work on the nuclear shell model.
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E.
Gerlach
Gerlach is a small, remote community in northwestern Nevada best known as the gateway to the Black Rock Desert and the annual Burning Man festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Abel Prize ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
gauge theory
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geometric analysis ⓘ mathematics ⓘ partial differential equations ⓘ |
| notableAs | first woman to receive the Abel Prize ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering work in gauge theory
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pioneering work in geometric analysis ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| usedBy | Karen Uhlenbeck ⓘ |
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: Uhlenbeck Description of subject: Uhlenbeck is a surname most prominently associated with Karen Uhlenbeck, a pioneering American mathematician and the first woman to receive the Abel Prize.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.