Andrew Thomason
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Andrew Thomason is a British mathematician renowned for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Andrew Thomason canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10370931 — 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: Andrew Thomason Context triple: [Euler Medal, notableRecipient, Andrew Thomason]
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A.
Tim Thomerson
Tim Thomerson is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in cult science fiction and action films such as the "Trancers" series.
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B.
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is a Welsh bar owner best known for his brief early-1990s marriage to actress Drew Barrymore.
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C.
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is a renowned British film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including multiple collaborations with prominent directors.
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D.
Eric Thompson
Eric Thompson was a British actor and writer best known for narrating and adapting the children's television series "The Magic Roundabout" and as the father of actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson.
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E.
Dean Thomas
Dean Thomas is a fictional Gryffindor student and member of Dumbledore's Army in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
- 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: Andrew Thomason Target entity description: Andrew Thomason is a British mathematician renowned for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
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A.
Tim Thomerson
Tim Thomerson is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in cult science fiction and action films such as the "Trancers" series.
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B.
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is a Welsh bar owner best known for his brief early-1990s marriage to actress Drew Barrymore.
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C.
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is a renowned British film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including multiple collaborations with prominent directors.
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D.
Eric Thompson
Eric Thompson was a British actor and writer best known for narrating and adapting the children's television series "The Magic Roundabout" and as the father of actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson.
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E.
Dean Thomas
Dean Thomas is a fictional Gryffindor student and member of Dumbledore's Army in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ |
| field |
combinatorics
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graph theory ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ramsey theory
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extremal graph theory ⓘ probabilistic methods in combinatorics ⓘ results in graph minors and structure theory of graphs ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | mathematician ⓘ |
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: Andrew Thomason Description of subject: Andrew Thomason is a British mathematician renowned for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.