Hans Lewy
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Hans Lewy was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in partial differential equations and numerical analysis, including co-formulating the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy (CFL) condition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hans Lewy canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4094255 — 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: Hans Lewy Context triple: [Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition, namedAfter, Hans Lewy]
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Adolf Berman
Adolf Berman was a Polish Jewish activist, Holocaust survivor, and politician known for his role in the Jewish resistance and postwar advocacy for survivors’ rights.
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Benno Levin
Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
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C.
Andreas Speiser
Andreas Speiser was a Swiss mathematician known for his work in group theory, algebra, and the history and philosophy of mathematics.
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D.
Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf was a Czech-American physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to physical optics and co-authoring the seminal textbook "Principles of Optics."
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E.
Eduard Holtzman
Eduard Holtzman was one of the defendants prosecuted in the 1936 Soviet "Trial of the Sixteen," a major Stalinist show trial targeting alleged members of the Trotskyist opposition.
- 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: Hans Lewy Target entity description: Hans Lewy was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in partial differential equations and numerical analysis, including co-formulating the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy (CFL) condition.
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A.
Adolf Berman
Adolf Berman was a Polish Jewish activist, Holocaust survivor, and politician known for his role in the Jewish resistance and postwar advocacy for survivors’ rights.
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B.
Benno Levin
Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
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C.
Andreas Speiser
Andreas Speiser was a Swiss mathematician known for his work in group theory, algebra, and the history and philosophy of mathematics.
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D.
Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf was a Czech-American physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to physical optics and co-authoring the seminal textbook "Principles of Optics."
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E.
Eduard Holtzman
Eduard Holtzman was one of the defendants prosecuted in the 1936 Soviet "Trial of the Sixteen," a major Stalinist show trial targeting alleged members of the Trotskyist opposition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Hans Lewy Description of subject: Hans Lewy was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in partial differential equations and numerical analysis, including co-formulating the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy (CFL) condition.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Richard Courant