Brian Conrad
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Brian Conrad is an American mathematician and professor known for his influential work in algebraic geometry and number theory, as well as for his expository writings and leadership in the mathematical community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brian Conrad canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10773345 — 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: Brian Conrad Context triple: [Grothendieck duality, furtherDevelopedBy, Brian Conrad]
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A.
Brandon S. Rogers
Brandon S. Rogers is a writer best known for his work on the film "Long Distance."
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B.
Brian C. Cornell
Brian C. Cornell is an American business executive best known as the chairman and chief executive officer of Target Corporation.
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C.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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D.
Sean S. Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
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E.
Matthew H. Carpenter
Matthew H. Carpenter was a 19th-century American lawyer and Republican politician from Wisconsin who served as a U.S. Senator and was known for his influential role in Reconstruction-era legal and constitutional debates.
- 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: Brian Conrad Target entity description: Brian Conrad is an American mathematician and professor known for his influential work in algebraic geometry and number theory, as well as for his expository writings and leadership in the mathematical community.
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A.
Brandon S. Rogers
Brandon S. Rogers is a writer best known for his work on the film "Long Distance."
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B.
Brian C. Cornell
Brian C. Cornell is an American business executive best known as the chairman and chief executive officer of Target Corporation.
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C.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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D.
Sean S. Cunningham
Sean S. Cunningham is an American film director and producer best known for creating and directing the influential horror classic "Friday the 13th."
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E.
Matthew H. Carpenter
Matthew H. Carpenter was a 19th-century American lawyer and Republican politician from Wisconsin who served as a U.S. Senator and was known for his influential role in Reconstruction-era legal and constitutional debates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Gerd Faltings ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Conrad ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Shimura varieties
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algebraic geometry ⓘ algebraic groups ⓘ arithmetic geometry ⓘ automorphic forms ⓘ expository mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ p-adic Hodge theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Brian ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
organizing advanced workshops and conferences in arithmetic geometry
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service on professional mathematical committees ⓘ writing detailed expository notes for the mathematical community ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
graduate advisor
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mathematical expositor ⓘ research mentor ⓘ |
| knownFor |
clear expository writing
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influential work in algebraic geometry ⓘ influential work in number theory ⓘ leadership in the mathematical community ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Mathematical Society ⓘ |
| notableWork |
co-authored books and lecture notes in arithmetic geometry
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expository articles on modern number theory ⓘ expository writings on the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and related topics ⓘ online lecture series on modern number theory and arithmetic geometry ⓘ research in p-adic Hodge theory ⓘ research on Shimura varieties ⓘ research on arithmetic aspects of algebraic groups ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
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researcher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University ⓘ |
| workLocation | Stanford, California ⓘ |
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: Brian Conrad Description of subject: Brian Conrad is an American mathematician and professor known for his influential work in algebraic geometry and number theory, as well as for his expository writings and leadership in the mathematical community.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.