William M. Hartmann
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William M. Hartmann is an American physicist and psychoacoustician known for his influential research on auditory perception and acoustics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William M. Hartmann canonical | 2 |
| William Hartmann | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1253605 — 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: William M. Hartmann Context triple: [ASA Gold Medal, notableRecipient, William M. Hartmann]
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A.
Raymond D. Mindlin
Raymond D. Mindlin was an influential American applied mechanician and engineer renowned for his foundational contributions to elasticity theory, plate and shell analysis, and the mechanics of solids.
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B.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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C.
Dr. Newton Geiszler
Dr. Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist who plays a key role in understanding and combating the monstrous threats in the Pacific Rim universe.
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D.
Donald W. Loveland
Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
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E.
Rudolf Garrels
Rudolf Garrels was an 18th-century Dutch organ builder known for constructing and maintaining notable church organs in the Netherlands.
- 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: William M. Hartmann Target entity description: William M. Hartmann is an American physicist and psychoacoustician known for his influential research on auditory perception and acoustics.
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A.
Raymond D. Mindlin
Raymond D. Mindlin was an influential American applied mechanician and engineer renowned for his foundational contributions to elasticity theory, plate and shell analysis, and the mechanics of solids.
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B.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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C.
Dr. Newton Geiszler
Dr. Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist who plays a key role in understanding and combating the monstrous threats in the Pacific Rim universe.
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D.
Donald W. Loveland
Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
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E.
Rudolf Garrels
Rudolf Garrels was an 18th-century Dutch organ builder known for constructing and maintaining notable church organs in the Netherlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American scientist
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acoustician ⓘ person ⓘ physicist ⓘ psychoacoustician ⓘ |
| affiliation | Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ASA Gold Medal
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ASA Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
education in acoustics and psychoacoustics
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models of auditory perception ⓘ understanding of binaural cues in sound localization ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer |
Michigan State University
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linked to:
Michigan State College
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| fieldOfWork |
acoustics
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auditory perception ⓘ physics ⓘ psychoacoustics ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | textbook on psychoacoustics ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
physiological acoustics
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psychological acoustics ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank |
distinguished professor
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professor of physics ⓘ |
| hasRole |
editor of acoustics journals
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mentor of graduate students in acoustics ⓘ |
| hasWritten | “Signals, Sound, and Sensation” ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Acoustical Society of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on acoustics
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research on auditory perception ⓘ research on binaural hearing ⓘ research on pitch perception ⓘ research on sound localization ⓘ |
| notableWork | “Signals, Sound, and Sensation” ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the Acoustical Society of America ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
auditory signal processing
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musical acoustics ⓘ room acoustics ⓘ speech perception ⓘ |
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: William M. Hartmann Description of subject: William M. Hartmann is an American physicist and psychoacoustician known for his influential research on auditory perception and acoustics.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“Signals, Sound, and Sensation”
subject linked to:
“Signals, Sound, and Sensation”
linked to: William M. Hartmann