Eckart Viehweg
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Eckart Viehweg was a German mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry, particularly in the theory of moduli spaces and vanishing theorems.
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| Eckart Viehweg canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eckart Viehweg Context triple: [Friedrich Hirzebruch, doctoralStudent, Eckart Viehweg]
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A.
Eberhard Schöngarth
Eberhard Schöngarth was a high-ranking Nazi SS and police leader involved in war crimes and the Holocaust, including participation in the Wannsee Conference.
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B.
Georg Friedrich Eckart
Georg Friedrich Eckart was a craftsman or goldsmith historically associated with the creation of the Imperial Crown of Russia.
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Bernhard Kühn
Bernhard Kühn was a German Luftwaffe officer who played a key leadership role in the airborne operations during World War II, notably in the Mediterranean theater.
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D.
Axel Schultes
Axel Schultes is a German architect best known for his influential role in shaping post-reunification Berlin’s government district and other major civic projects.
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E.
Gerhard Doerfer
Gerhard Doerfer was a German linguist renowned for his critical work on Turkic and other Central Asian languages and for his influential rejection of the proposed Altaic language family.
- 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: Eckart Viehweg Target entity description: Eckart Viehweg was a German mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry, particularly in the theory of moduli spaces and vanishing theorems.
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A.
Eberhard Schöngarth
Eberhard Schöngarth was a high-ranking Nazi SS and police leader involved in war crimes and the Holocaust, including participation in the Wannsee Conference.
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B.
Georg Friedrich Eckart
Georg Friedrich Eckart was a craftsman or goldsmith historically associated with the creation of the Imperial Crown of Russia.
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C.
Bernhard Kühn
Bernhard Kühn was a German Luftwaffe officer who played a key leadership role in the airborne operations during World War II, notably in the Mediterranean theater.
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D.
Axel Schultes
Axel Schultes is a German architect best known for his influential role in shaping post-reunification Berlin’s government district and other major civic projects.
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E.
Gerhard Doerfer
Gerhard Doerfer was a German linguist renowned for his critical work on Turkic and other Central Asian languages and for his influential rejection of the proposed Altaic language family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Bonn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
NERFINISHED
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 1996 NERFINISHED ⓘ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Christopher Hacon
NERFINISHED
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Fedor Bogomolov NERFINISHED ⓘ Hans Grauert NERFINISHED ⓘ Kang Zuo NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Schneider NERFINISHED ⓘ Shigefumi Mori NERFINISHED ⓘ Stefan Kebekus NERFINISHED ⓘ Yujiro Kawamata NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-12-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-01-29 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Friedrich Hirzebruch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Duisburg-Essen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Viehweg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algebraic geometry
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mathematics ⓘ |
| genre | research article ⓘ |
| givenName | Eckart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of moduli theory for canonically polarized varieties
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research in higher-dimensional algebraic geometry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Viehweg’s weak positivity theorem
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theory of moduli spaces ⓘ vanishing theorems in algebraic geometry ⓘ work on moduli of canonically polarized varieties ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ |
| mainResearchInterest |
birational geometry
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moduli of higher-dimensional varieties ⓘ positivity of direct image sheaves ⓘ |
| memberOf | German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Eckart Viehweg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Christopher Hacon
NERFINISHED
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Stefan Kebekus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Canonical divisors and the additivity of the Kodaira dimension for morphisms of relative dimension one
NERFINISHED
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Quasi-projective moduli for polarized manifolds NERFINISHED ⓘ Weak positivity and the additivity of the Kodaira dimension for certain fibre spaces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Zerbst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Essen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of mathematics ⓘ |
| workLocation | Essen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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