R. K. Guy
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R. K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory and combinatorics, as well as for popularizing unsolved mathematical problems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| R. K. Guy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6938579 — 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: R. K. Guy Context triple: [Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, author, R. K. Guy]
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C. K. Steele
C. K. Steele was a prominent African-American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who played a key role in the Southern civil rights movement, particularly through his leadership in bus boycotts and work with national organizations.
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R. A. Dick
R. A. Dick was the pseudonym of Irish-British writer Josephine Leslie, best known for her 1945 romantic fantasy novel "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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C.
R. K. Pierson
R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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D.
V. K. Ratliff
V. K. Ratliff is a shrewd, observant sewing-machine salesman who serves as a central moral and narrative voice in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories.
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E.
Stanley Robison
Stanley Robison was an American baseball executive best known for co-owning and operating 19th-century Major League clubs, including the Cleveland Spiders and later the St. Louis Cardinals.
- 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: R. K. Guy Target entity description: R. K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory and combinatorics, as well as for popularizing unsolved mathematical problems.
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A.
C. K. Steele
C. K. Steele was a prominent African-American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who played a key role in the Southern civil rights movement, particularly through his leadership in bus boycotts and work with national organizations.
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B.
R. A. Dick
R. A. Dick was the pseudonym of Irish-British writer Josephine Leslie, best known for her 1945 romantic fantasy novel "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
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C.
R. K. Pierson
R. K. Pierson was a British aeronautical engineer best known for designing the Vickers Wellington bomber used extensively by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
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D.
V. K. Ratliff
V. K. Ratliff is a shrewd, observant sewing-machine salesman who serves as a central moral and narrative voice in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories.
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E.
Stanley Robison
Stanley Robison was an American baseball executive best known for co-owning and operating 19th-century Major League clubs, including the Cleveland Spiders and later the St. Louis Cardinals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
combinatorics community
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number theory community ⓘ recreational mathematics community ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Chauvenet Prize
NERFINISHED
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Lester R. Ford Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
B. Bollobás
NERFINISHED
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C. A. B. Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ C. A. Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ Elwyn R. Berlekamp NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Harary NERFINISHED ⓘ H. T. Croft NERFINISHED ⓘ John H. Conway NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Erdős NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard J. Nowakowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| employer | University of Calgary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
combinatorial game theory
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combinatorics ⓘ graph theory ⓘ number theory ⓘ recreational mathematics ⓘ |
| fullName | Richard Kenneth Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Kenneth
NERFINISHED
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Richard ⓘ |
| knownFor |
popularizing unsolved problems in mathematics
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research in combinatorics ⓘ research in number theory ⓘ work in combinatorial games ⓘ work in graph theory ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Canadian Mathematical Society
NERFINISHED
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London Mathematical Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Book of Numbers
NERFINISHED
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Unsolved Problems in Number Theory NERFINISHED ⓘ Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Alberta
NERFINISHED
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Calgary NERFINISHED ⓘ Canada 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: R. K. Guy Description of subject: R. K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory and combinatorics, as well as for popularizing unsolved mathematical problems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.