Augusta H. Teller
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Augusta H. Teller is a scientist best known as a co-developer of the Metropolis algorithm, a foundational method in Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation used widely in statistical physics and computational statistics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augusta H. Teller canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11002211 — 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: Augusta H. Teller Context triple: [Metropolis algorithm, coDevelopedBy, Augusta H. Teller]
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A.
Sarah G. Bagley
Sarah G. Bagley was a prominent 19th-century American labor reformer and early advocate for women’s rights who campaigned for better working conditions and shorter hours for factory workers.
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B.
Anna Belknap
Anna Belknap is an American actress best known for playing Detective Lindsay Monroe on the television series CSI: NY.
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C.
Sarah H. Joslyn
Sarah H. Joslyn was a prominent Omaha philanthropist whose generosity and patronage of the arts led to the creation of the Joslyn Art Museum.
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D.
Stella Duckworth
Stella Duckworth was the eldest daughter of Julia Prinsep Duckworth (later Julia Stephen) and a member of the Victorian intellectual family that included her half-sister, the writer Virginia Woolf.
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E.
Olive E. Kenny
Olive E. Kenny was a translator known for rendering works such as Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Sugar Street" into English.
- 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: Augusta H. Teller Target entity description: Augusta H. Teller is a scientist best known as a co-developer of the Metropolis algorithm, a foundational method in Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation used widely in statistical physics and computational statistics.
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A.
Sarah G. Bagley
Sarah G. Bagley was a prominent 19th-century American labor reformer and early advocate for women’s rights who campaigned for better working conditions and shorter hours for factory workers.
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B.
Anna Belknap
Anna Belknap is an American actress best known for playing Detective Lindsay Monroe on the television series CSI: NY.
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C.
Sarah H. Joslyn
Sarah H. Joslyn was a prominent Omaha philanthropist whose generosity and patronage of the arts led to the creation of the Joslyn Art Museum.
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D.
Stella Duckworth
Stella Duckworth was the eldest daughter of Julia Prinsep Duckworth (later Julia Stephen) and a member of the Victorian intellectual family that included her half-sister, the writer Virginia Woolf.
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E.
Olive E. Kenny
Olive E. Kenny was a translator known for rendering works such as Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Sugar Street" into English.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Markov chain Monte Carlo method
ⓘ
scientist ⓘ |
| basedOn | Monte Carlo method ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Markov chain Monte Carlo
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computational statistics ⓘ statistical physics ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Markov chain
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linked to:
Markov processes
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| knownFor |
co-developing the Metropolis algorithm
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contributions to computational statistics ⓘ contributions to statistical physics ⓘ work on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods ⓘ |
| notableWork | Metropolis algorithm ⓘ |
| use |
computational statistics
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sampling from probability distributions ⓘ statistical physics ⓘ |
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: Augusta H. Teller Description of subject: Augusta H. Teller is a scientist best known as a co-developer of the Metropolis algorithm, a foundational method in Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation used widely in statistical physics and computational statistics.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.