Vessiot
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Vessiot is a French surname most notably associated with mathematician Ernest Vessiot, known for his contributions to differential equations and Galois theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vessiot canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10197936 — 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: Vessiot Context triple: [Ernest Vessiot, familyName, Vessiot]
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A.
Cartan
Cartan is a French surname most famously associated with mathematician Élie Cartan and his influential family of mathematicians.
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B.
Plücker
Plücker is a German surname most notably associated with Julius Plücker, a 19th-century mathematician and physicist known for his contributions to analytic and projective geometry.
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C.
Rimae Cauchy
Rimae Cauchy is a system of lunar rilles located in the eastern part of Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon.
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D.
Johannes G. G. Darboux
Johannes G. G. Darboux was a French mathematician known for his influential work in geometry and analysis, including the Darboux theorem and Darboux's law of intermediate values.
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E.
Charles Ehresmann
Charles Ehresmann was a French mathematician known for his foundational work in differential topology and category theory, including the development of concepts such as fiber bundles and Lie groupoids.
- 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: Vessiot Target entity description: Vessiot is a French surname most notably associated with mathematician Ernest Vessiot, known for his contributions to differential equations and Galois theory.
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A.
Cartan
Cartan is a French surname most famously associated with mathematician Élie Cartan and his influential family of mathematicians.
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B.
Plücker
Plücker is a German surname most notably associated with Julius Plücker, a 19th-century mathematician and physicist known for his contributions to analytic and projective geometry.
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C.
Rimae Cauchy
Rimae Cauchy is a system of lunar rilles located in the eastern part of Mare Tranquillitatis on the Moon.
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D.
Johannes G. G. Darboux
Johannes G. G. Darboux was a French mathematician known for his influential work in geometry and analysis, including the Darboux theorem and Darboux's law of intermediate values.
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E.
Charles Ehresmann
Charles Ehresmann was a French mathematician known for his foundational work in differential topology and category theory, including the development of concepts such as fiber bundles and Lie groupoids.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of differential Galois theory
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theory of differential equations ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Paris
ⓘ
École Normale Supérieure ⓘ
linked to:
École Normale (Paris)
|
| familyName | Vessiot ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Galois theory
ⓘ
differential equations ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| givenName | Ernest ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Vessiot ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Évariste Galois ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
French Academy of Sciences
ⓘ
linked to:
Académie des Sciences
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| notableBearer | Ernest Vessiot ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to Galois theory
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contributions to differential equations ⓘ work on differential Galois theory ⓘ |
| occupation | university professor ⓘ |
| studies |
ordinary differential equations
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partial differential equations ⓘ |
| usedAs | French surname ⓘ |
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.
Input
Subject: Vessiot Description of subject: Vessiot is a French surname most notably associated with mathematician Ernest Vessiot, known for his contributions to differential equations and Galois theory.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.