William H. Press
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William H. Press is an American astrophysicist and computational scientist known for his influential work in numerical analysis, cosmology, and science policy, including co-authoring the widely used textbook "Numerical Recipes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William H. Press canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T145484 — 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: William H. Press Context triple: [Freeman Dyson, notableStudent, William H. Press]
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A.
Norman Spinrad
Norman Spinrad is an American science fiction author known for his provocative, politically charged novels and short stories, including "Bug Jack Barron" and "The Iron Dream."
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B.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
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C.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
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D.
John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
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E.
Dr. Newton Geiszler
Dr. Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist who plays a key role in understanding and combating the monstrous threats in the Pacific Rim universe.
- 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: William H. Press Target entity description: William H. Press is an American astrophysicist and computational scientist known for his influential work in numerical analysis, cosmology, and science policy, including co-authoring the widely used textbook "Numerical Recipes."
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A.
Norman Spinrad
Norman Spinrad is an American science fiction author known for his provocative, politically charged novels and short stories, including "Bug Jack Barron" and "The Iron Dream."
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B.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
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C.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
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D.
John R. Pierce
John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
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E.
Dr. Newton Geiszler
Dr. Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist who plays a key role in understanding and combating the monstrous threats in the Pacific Rim universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astrophysicist
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computational scientist ⓘ cosmologist ⓘ person ⓘ physicist ⓘ science policy expert ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
computational methods in physical sciences
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cosmological structure formation ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Numerical Recipes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Press ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astrophysics
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computational physics ⓘ computational science ⓘ cosmology ⓘ numerical analysis ⓘ science policy ⓘ |
| genre | scientific textbook ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
applied mathematics
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astronomy ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| hasNotableTextbook |
Numerical Recipes
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surface form:
Numerical Recipes in C
Numerical Recipes ⓘ
surface form:
Numerical Recipes in Fortran
Numerical Recipes ⓘ
surface form:
Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing
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| hasRole |
academic leader
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research scientist ⓘ science policy advisor ⓘ textbook author ⓘ |
| influenced | practice of numerical computing in science and engineering ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
developments in computational physics
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modern cosmology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-authoring Numerical Recipes
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contributions to computational methods in science ⓘ involvement in science policy ⓘ work in cosmology ⓘ work in numerical analysis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | William H. Press self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Numerical Recipes ⓘ |
| occupation |
astrophysicist
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author ⓘ physicist ⓘ science administrator ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
algorithms for scientific computing
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applications of computation to astrophysics ⓘ quantitative methods for physical sciences ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: William H. Press Description of subject: William H. Press is an American astrophysicist and computational scientist known for his influential work in numerical analysis, cosmology, and science policy, including co-authoring the widely used textbook "Numerical Recipes."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.