Jordan Ellenberg
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Jordan Ellenberg is an American mathematician and author known for his popular math writing, including the bestselling book "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking."
All labels observed (1)
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| Jordan Ellenberg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6938737 — 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: Jordan Ellenberg Context triple: [Euler Book Prize, notableRecipient, Jordan Ellenberg]
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A.
Michael Ellenberg
Michael Ellenberg is a television producer and media executive best known for developing and producing high-profile prestige series, including the Apple TV+ drama "The Morning Show."
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B.
Manjul Bhargava
Manjul Bhargava is a Canadian-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in number theory, for which he received the Fields Medal in 2014.
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C.
David D. Smith
David D. Smith is an American media executive best known as the longtime chairman and former CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest television broadcasting companies in the United States.
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D.
Terence Tao
Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, additive combinatorics, and analytic number theory.
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E.
Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in number theory and arithmetic geometry, particularly in the development of the theory of modular forms and contributions to the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
- 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: Jordan Ellenberg Target entity description: Jordan Ellenberg is an American mathematician and author known for his popular math writing, including the bestselling book "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking."
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A.
Michael Ellenberg
Michael Ellenberg is a television producer and media executive best known for developing and producing high-profile prestige series, including the Apple TV+ drama "The Morning Show."
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B.
Manjul Bhargava
Manjul Bhargava is a Canadian-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in number theory, for which he received the Fields Medal in 2014.
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C.
David D. Smith
David D. Smith is an American media executive best known as the longtime chairman and former CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest television broadcasting companies in the United States.
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D.
Terence Tao
Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, additive combinatorics, and analytic number theory.
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E.
Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in number theory and arithmetic geometry, particularly in the development of the theory of modular forms and contributions to the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree
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PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
mathematics education
ⓘ
public understanding of mathematics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Simons Fellowship in Mathematics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Madison, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Andrew Wiles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | University of Wisconsin–Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
algebraic geometry
ⓘ
arithmetic geometry ⓘ mathematics popularization ⓘ number theory ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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novel ⓘ popular mathematics ⓘ |
| hasChild | three children ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
elections and gerrymandering
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number theory in popular contexts ⓘ probability and risk ⓘ statistics in public life ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Mathematical Society
NERFINISHED
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Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (as a trustee) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
application of mathematical thinking to everyday life and public policy
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use of geometry and topology in understanding data and democracy ⓘ |
| notableStudent | math competition participants and general audiences through outreach ⓘ |
| notableWork |
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else NERFINISHED ⓘ The Grasshopper King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
mathematician
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university teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Tamar Ellenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twitterUsername | JSEllenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesFor |
Slate
NERFINISHED
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The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wall Street Journal 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: Jordan Ellenberg Description of subject: Jordan Ellenberg is an American mathematician and author known for his popular math writing, including the bestselling book "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.