Ashoke Sen
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Ashoke Sen is a renowned Indian theoretical physicist celebrated for his pioneering contributions to string theory and quantum field theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ashoke Sen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5622926 — 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: Ashoke Sen Context triple: [John H. Schwarz, notableStudent, Ashoke Sen]
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A.
Ashoke Ganguli
Ashoke Ganguli is a reflective, resilient Bengali immigrant father in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Namesake," whose past trauma and quiet strength profoundly shape his family’s life in America.
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B.
Ashok Chandra
Ashok Chandra is a computer scientist known for his contributions to theoretical computer science and complexity theory.
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C.
Swarup
Swarup is an Indian given name commonly used for males, derived from Sanskrit and generally meaning "form" or "true nature."
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D.
Shaktikanta Das
Shaktikanta Das is an Indian economist and civil servant who has been serving as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
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E.
Gita Chandra
Gita Chandra is a fictional character from the British science fiction series "The Sarah Jane Adventures," known as the mother of Rani Chandra.
- 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: Ashoke Sen Target entity description: Ashoke Sen is a renowned Indian theoretical physicist celebrated for his pioneering contributions to string theory and quantum field theory.
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A.
Ashoke Ganguli
Ashoke Ganguli is a reflective, resilient Bengali immigrant father in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel "The Namesake," whose past trauma and quiet strength profoundly shape his family’s life in America.
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B.
Ashok Chandra
Ashok Chandra is a computer scientist known for his contributions to theoretical computer science and complexity theory.
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C.
Swarup
Swarup is an Indian given name commonly used for males, derived from Sanskrit and generally meaning "form" or "true nature."
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D.
Shaktikanta Das
Shaktikanta Das is an Indian economist and civil servant who has been serving as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
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E.
Gita Chandra
Gita Chandra is a fictional character from the British science fiction series "The Sarah Jane Adventures," known as the mother of Rani Chandra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science
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Master of Science ⓘ PhD in physics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Dirac Medal
NERFINISHED
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Fundamental Physics Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Infosys Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Padma Bhushan ⓘ Padma Shri ⓘ Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ TWAS Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1956-07-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
India
NERFINISHED
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Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ West Bengal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | India ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Kumar Sundaresan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
NERFINISHED
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Presidency College Kolkata NERFINISHED ⓘ Stony Brook University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
NERFINISHED
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
quantum field theory
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string theory ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
S-duality in string theory
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Sen conjectures on black holes ⓘ contributions to non-perturbative string theory ⓘ contributions to quantum field theory ⓘ tachyon condensation in string theory ⓘ work on D-branes ⓘ work on string theory dualities ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Bengali
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English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Indian Academy of Sciences
NERFINISHED
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Indian National Science Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ The World Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ashoke Sen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Rajesh Gopakumar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Distinguished Professor
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Professor ⓘ |
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: Ashoke Sen Description of subject: Ashoke Sen is a renowned Indian theoretical physicist celebrated for his pioneering contributions to string theory and quantum field theory.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.