Herman Auerbach
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Herman Auerbach was a Polish mathematician associated with the renowned Lwów School of Mathematics, known for his contributions to functional analysis and geometry before his death in the Holocaust.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herman Auerbach canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3780783 — 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: Herman Auerbach Context triple: [Lwów School of Mathematics, hasMember, Herman Auerbach]
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A.
Carl Schuhmann
Carl Schuhmann was a German athlete renowned for winning multiple gold medals in gymnastics and wrestling at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in 1896.
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B.
Georg Ehrlich
Georg Ehrlich was an Austrian-born sculptor and graphic artist known for his expressive bronze figures and contributions to 20th-century European art.
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C.
Fritz Bernstein
Fritz Bernstein was a Zionist economist and Israeli politician who served as a member of Israel’s pre-state legislature and later as Minister of Trade and Industry.
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D.
Arnold Jacob Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was a legendary American basketball coach and executive best known for building the Boston Celtics dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
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.
- 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: Herman Auerbach Target entity description: Herman Auerbach was a Polish mathematician associated with the renowned Lwów School of Mathematics, known for his contributions to functional analysis and geometry before his death in the Holocaust.
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A.
Carl Schuhmann
Carl Schuhmann was a German athlete renowned for winning multiple gold medals in gymnastics and wrestling at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in 1896.
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B.
Georg Ehrlich
Georg Ehrlich was an Austrian-born sculptor and graphic artist known for his expressive bronze figures and contributions to 20th-century European art.
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C.
Fritz Bernstein
Fritz Bernstein was a Zionist economist and Israeli politician who served as a member of Israel’s pre-state legislature and later as Minister of Trade and Industry.
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D.
Arnold Jacob Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was a legendary American basketball coach and executive best known for building the Boston Celtics dynasty that dominated the NBA in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish mathematician
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
Holocaust
NERFINISHED
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Nazi persecution of Jews ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Poland ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Lwów NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Lwów Polytechnic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century mathematics ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish people
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| familyName | Auerbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
functional analysis
ⓘ
geometry ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| givenName | Herman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | analysis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
German
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Polish ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lwów School of Mathematics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Herman Auerbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Auerbach bases in normed spaces
NERFINISHED
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contributions to functional analysis ⓘ contributions to geometry ⓘ work with Banach spaces ⓘ |
| notableStudentOrColleague |
Hugo Steinhaus
NERFINISHED
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Stanisław Ulam NERFINISHED ⓘ Stefan Banach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | university teacher ⓘ |
| participantIn | World War II ⓘ |
| partOf | Polish Jewish community of Lwów NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lwów NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lwów Ghetto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Lwów NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimOf | Holocaust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Lwów NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Herman Auerbach Description of subject: Herman Auerbach was a Polish mathematician associated with the renowned Lwów School of Mathematics, known for his contributions to functional analysis and geometry before his death in the Holocaust.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.