Dehn
E265410
German-language surname
artist
mathematician
musicologist
netball player
person
politician
screenwriter
surname
theologian
Dehn is a German surname most notably associated with mathematician Max Dehn, known for his contributions to topology and group theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dehn canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2416858 — 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: Dehn Context triple: [Max Dehn, familyName, Dehn]
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A.
Heide
Heide is a small German town that serves as the administrative center of the Dithmarschen district in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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B.
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a picturesque Austrian village in Tyrol, known as a popular alpine resort and gateway to the Zugspitze massif.
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C.
Heidkrüger
Heidkrüger is the original German surname of actress and former fashion model Diane Kruger.
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D.
Derendingen
Derendingen is a municipality in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, known as a residential and industrial community near the city of Solothurn.
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E.
Rechenberg
Rechenberg is a locality in Germany known historically as the place where the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach died.
- 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: Dehn Target entity description: Dehn is a German surname most notably associated with mathematician Max Dehn, known for his contributions to topology and group theory.
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A.
Heide
Heide is a small German town that serves as the administrative center of the Dithmarschen district in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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B.
Ehrwald
Ehrwald is a picturesque Austrian village in Tyrol, known as a popular alpine resort and gateway to the Zugspitze massif.
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C.
Heidkrüger
Heidkrüger is the original German surname of actress and former fashion model Diane Kruger.
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D.
Derendingen
Derendingen is a municipality in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, known as a residential and industrial community near the city of Solothurn.
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E.
Rechenberg
Rechenberg is a locality in Germany known historically as the place where the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach died.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language surname
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artist ⓘ artist ⓘ mathematician ⓘ musicologist ⓘ netball player ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ politician ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Australia
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Germany ⓘ Germany ⓘ Germany ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
geometry
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group theory ⓘ topology ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Adolf Dehn
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Günther Dehn ⓘ Max Dehn ⓘ Megan Dehn ⓘ Paul Dehn ⓘ Ray Dehn ⓘ Siegfried Dehn ⓘ Virginia Dehn ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Dehn filling
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linked to:
Dehn surgery
Dehn invariant ⓘ Dehn lemma ⓘ Dehn surgery ⓘ early work in combinatorial group theory ⓘ solution of the word problem for the fundamental group of a surface ⓘ |
| surname |
Dehn
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Dehn ⓘ Dehn ⓘ Dehn ⓘ Dehn ⓘ Dehn ⓘ Dehn ⓘ Dehn ⓘ |
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: Dehn Description of subject: Dehn is a German surname most notably associated with mathematician Max Dehn, known for his contributions to topology and group theory.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.