Hubert Anson Newton
E895656
Hubert Anson Newton was a 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his work on meteors and for mentoring influential mathematicians such as E. H. Moore at Yale University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hubert Anson Newton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10946653 — 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: Hubert Anson Newton Context triple: [E. H. Moore, doctoralAdvisor, Hubert Anson Newton]
-
A.
Rutherford Alcock
Rutherford Alcock was a 19th-century British diplomat best known as the first British consul in Japan and for helping open the country to Western influence.
-
B.
William E. Parsons
William E. Parsons was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century work in the Philippines, where he helped shape public and institutional architecture under the U.S. colonial administration.
-
C.
Edward Alderson
Edward Alderson is a character in the television series "Mr. Robot," known as Elliot Alderson’s late father and a key figure whose past actions and legacy deeply influence Elliot’s life and psyche.
-
D.
Henry Nettleship
Henry Nettleship was a 19th-century English classical scholar best known for his work on Latin literature and his contributions to the study of Roman poetry.
-
E.
Percy William Pickering
Percy William Pickering was the father of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.
- 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: Hubert Anson Newton Target entity description: Hubert Anson Newton was a 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his work on meteors and for mentoring influential mathematicians such as E. H. Moore at Yale University.
-
A.
Rutherford Alcock
Rutherford Alcock was a 19th-century British diplomat best known as the first British consul in Japan and for helping open the country to Western influence.
-
B.
William E. Parsons
William E. Parsons was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century work in the Philippines, where he helped shape public and institutional architecture under the U.S. colonial administration.
-
C.
Edward Alderson
Edward Alderson is a character in the television series "Mr. Robot," known as Elliot Alderson’s late father and a key figure whose past actions and legacy deeply influence Elliot’s life and psyche.
-
D.
Henry Nettleship
Henry Nettleship was a 19th-century English classical scholar best known for his work on Latin literature and his contributions to the study of Roman poetry.
-
E.
Percy William Pickering
Percy William Pickering was the father of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
astronomer ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| affiliation | Yale University ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Newton ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astronomy
ⓘ
celestial mechanics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ meteor showers ⓘ meteors ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Hubert ⓘ |
| middleName | Anson ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to American astronomy in the 19th century
ⓘ
mentoring influential American mathematicians ⓘ work on meteors ⓘ |
| notableStudent | E. H. Moore ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on meteor showers
ⓘ
research on meteors ⓘ studies of the Leonid meteor shower ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor of astronomy
ⓘ
professor of mathematics ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
faculty member at Yale University
ⓘ
mentor of E. H. Moore ⓘ |
| workLocation | New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
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: Hubert Anson Newton Description of subject: Hubert Anson Newton was a 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his work on meteors and for mentoring influential mathematicians such as E. H. Moore at Yale University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.