Stott
E84416
Stott is a surname notably associated with Alicia Boole Stott, a pioneering mathematician known for her work on four-dimensional polytopes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stott canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T693128 — 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: Stott Context triple: [Alicia Boole Stott, familyName, Stott]
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A.
Steffl
Steffl is the popular nickname for the iconic south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, a prominent symbol of the city's skyline.
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B.
Loscutoff
Loscutoff is the surname of former Boston Celtics forward Jim Loscutoff, whose number 18 was retired by the team in his honor.
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C.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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D.
Barlow
Barlow is a surname most notably associated with John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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E.
Southery
Southery is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated in the Fens near the River Great Ouse.
- 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: Stott Target entity description: Stott is a surname notably associated with Alicia Boole Stott, a pioneering mathematician known for her work on four-dimensional polytopes.
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A.
Steffl
Steffl is the popular nickname for the iconic south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, a prominent symbol of the city's skyline.
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B.
Loscutoff
Loscutoff is the surname of former Boston Celtics forward Jim Loscutoff, whose number 18 was retired by the team in his honor.
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C.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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D.
Barlow
Barlow is a surname most notably associated with John Perry Barlow, the American poet, essayist, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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E.
Southery
Southery is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, situated in the Fens near the River Great Ouse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ mathematician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Alicia Boole ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName |
Boole
ⓘ
linked to:
George Boole
Stott ⓘ Stott ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
four-dimensional geometry
ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ |
| givenName | Alicia ⓘ |
| hasFather | George Boole ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Alicia Boole Stott ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Walter Stott ⓘ |
| knownFor | work on four-dimensional polytopes ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
introduced the term polytope for higher-dimensional analogues of polyhedra
ⓘ
visualization methods for 4D polytopes via 3D sections ⓘ |
| notableWork | construction of regular polytopes in four dimensions ⓘ |
| occupation |
geometer
ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Stott Description of subject: Stott is a surname notably associated with Alicia Boole Stott, a pioneering mathematician known for her work on four-dimensional polytopes.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.