Andrew Hodges
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Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician and biographer best known for writing the acclaimed Alan Turing biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma," which inspired the film "The Imitation Game."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andrew Hodges canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1963659 — 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 Hodges Context triple: [The Imitation Game, basedOnAuthor, Andrew Hodges]
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A.
Will Harridge
Will Harridge was an American baseball executive who served as president of the American League from 1931 to 1959.
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B.
Richard Hodges
Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
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C.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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D.
David Edward Hughes
David Edward Hughes was a 19th-century British inventor and physicist best known for pioneering work in telegraphy, the carbon microphone, and early radio wave detection.
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E.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- 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 Hodges Target entity description: Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician and biographer best known for writing the acclaimed Alan Turing biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma," which inspired the film "The Imitation Game."
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A.
Will Harridge
Will Harridge was an American baseball executive who served as president of the American League from 1931 to 1959.
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B.
Richard Hodges
Richard Hodges is the former director of the Ohio Department of Health who was a named respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges.
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C.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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D.
David Edward Hughes
David Edward Hughes was a 19th-century British inventor and physicist best known for pioneering work in telegraphy, the carbon microphone, and early radio wave detection.
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E.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographer
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biographical book ⓘ biographical film ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author | Andrew Hodges self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| basedOn | Alan Turing: The Enigma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | King's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biography
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history of computing ⓘ mathematical physics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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popular mathematics ⓘ |
| hasGivenPresentationOn |
Alan Turing
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history of computing ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
foundations of computing
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number theory ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | The Imitation Game ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Alan Turing ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
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surface form:
gay rights movement
|
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
biography of Alan Turing
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contributions to public understanding of Alan Turing ⓘ popularization of mathematics ⓘ |
| notableSubjectOfWork | Alan Turing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alan Turing: The Enigma
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One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
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mathematician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
research fellow
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tutor in mathematics ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| workLocation | Oxford ⓘ |
| wrote |
Alan Turing: The Enigma
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One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers ⓘ |
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 Hodges Description of subject: Andrew Hodges is a British mathematician and biographer best known for writing the acclaimed Alan Turing biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma," which inspired the film "The Imitation Game."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alan Turing: The Enigma