Brook Taylor
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Brook Taylor was an English mathematician best known for developing Taylor's theorem and Taylor series, fundamental tools in mathematical analysis.
All labels observed (1)
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| Brook Taylor canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2856436 — 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: Brook Taylor Context triple: [Taylor, hasNotableBearer, Brook Taylor]
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Colin Maclaurin
Colin Maclaurin was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician known for his significant contributions to calculus and geometry, including the development of the Maclaurin series.
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William Cayley
William Cayley was a notable figure after whom Mount Cayley in British Columbia, Canada, was named, likely reflecting his prominence in regional or national history.
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John Wallis
John Wallis was a 17th-century English mathematician and clergyman known for his contributions to calculus, analytic geometry, and the introduction of the infinity symbol (∞).
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Peter Barlow
Peter Barlow was a 19th-century English mathematician and physicist known for his work in number theory, optics, and for Barlow's Tables of mathematical functions.
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Bernard Lintot
Bernard Lintot was an early 18th-century English bookseller and publisher best known for issuing works by major literary figures such as Alexander Pope.
- 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: Brook Taylor Target entity description: Brook Taylor was an English mathematician best known for developing Taylor's theorem and Taylor series, fundamental tools in mathematical analysis.
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A.
Colin Maclaurin
Colin Maclaurin was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician known for his significant contributions to calculus and geometry, including the development of the Maclaurin series.
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B.
William Cayley
William Cayley was a notable figure after whom Mount Cayley in British Columbia, Canada, was named, likely reflecting his prominence in regional or national history.
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C.
John Wallis
John Wallis was a 17th-century English mathematician and clergyman known for his contributions to calculus, analytic geometry, and the introduction of the infinity symbol (∞).
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D.
Peter Barlow
Peter Barlow was a 19th-century English mathematician and physicist known for his work in number theory, optics, and for Barlow's Tables of mathematical functions.
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E.
Bernard Lintot
Bernard Lintot was an early 18th-century English bookseller and publisher best known for issuing works by major literary figures such as Alexander Pope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Brook Taylor Description of subject: Brook Taylor was an English mathematician best known for developing Taylor's theorem and Taylor series, fundamental tools in mathematical analysis.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.