John Crank
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John Crank was a British mathematician and physicist best known for co-developing the Crank–Nicolson numerical method for solving partial differential equations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Crank canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4094342 — 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: John Crank Context triple: [Crank–Nicolson scheme, namedAfter, John Crank]
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A.
Robert Leighton
Robert Leighton is a film editor known for his work on notable movies including the baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
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B.
John Randall
John Randall was a British physicist and biophysicist known for his leadership in molecular biology research at King's College London, where crucial work on the structure of DNA was carried out.
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C.
W. E. Windus
W. E. Windus was a British publisher best known as a co-founder of the London publishing house Chatto & Windus.
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D.
George Cowan
George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
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E.
G. H. Shortley
G. H. Shortley was a physicist best known for coauthoring the influential quantum mechanics textbook "The Theory of Atomic Spectra" with Edward Condon.
- 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: John Crank Target entity description: John Crank was a British mathematician and physicist best known for co-developing the Crank–Nicolson numerical method for solving partial differential equations.
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A.
Robert Leighton
Robert Leighton is a film editor known for his work on notable movies including the baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
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B.
John Randall
John Randall was a British physicist and biophysicist known for his leadership in molecular biology research at King's College London, where crucial work on the structure of DNA was carried out.
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C.
W. E. Windus
W. E. Windus was a British publisher best known as a co-founder of the London publishing house Chatto & Windus.
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D.
George Cowan
George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
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E.
G. H. Shortley
G. H. Shortley was a physicist best known for coauthoring the influential quantum mechanics textbook "The Theory of Atomic Spectra" with Edward Condon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
higher education
ⓘ
scientific research ⓘ |
| citizenship | British ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Phyllis Nicolson ⓘ |
| coDeveloperOf |
Crank–Nicolson method
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linked to:
Crank–Nicolson scheme
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ⓘ
linked to:
United Kingdom
|
| educatedAt |
Christ Church, Oxford
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| employer |
Brunel University
ⓘ
linked to:
Brunel University London
Courtaulds ⓘ
linked to:
Courtaulds textile manufacturing
|
| fieldOfWork |
heat transfer
ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ numerical analysis ⓘ partial differential equations ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
applied mathematics
ⓘ
numerical methods for differential equations ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
computational fluid dynamics
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computational physics ⓘ engineering mathematics ⓘ |
| hasWorkIn |
boundary value problems
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finite difference methods ⓘ initial value problems ⓘ numerical time-stepping schemes ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Alan Turing
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John von Neumann ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Crank–Nicolson method
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linked to:
Crank–Nicolson scheme
numerical solution of diffusion equations ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableConcept | Crank–Nicolson scheme ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Mathematics of Diffusion ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
ⓘ
physicist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Head of Mathematics at Brunel University
ⓘ
Professor of Mathematics at Brunel University ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studies |
diffusion processes
ⓘ
heat conduction ⓘ parabolic partial differential equations ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
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Subject: John Crank Description of subject: John Crank was a British mathematician and physicist best known for co-developing the Crank–Nicolson numerical method for solving partial differential equations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.