Patrick Michael Grundy
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Patrick Michael Grundy was a British mathematician best known for his foundational work in combinatorial game theory, particularly the development of the Sprague–Grundy theorem.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Michael Grundy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7278035 — 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: Patrick Michael Grundy Context triple: [Sprague–Grundy theorem, namedAfter, Patrick Michael Grundy]
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A.
Patrick Hughes
Patrick Hughes is an Australian film director best known for helming action movies such as *The Expendables 3* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*.
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B.
Patrick Graham
Patrick Graham was a 15th-century Scottish churchman who became the first Archbishop of St Andrews and played a key role in elevating the Scottish Church’s independence from English ecclesiastical authority.
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C.
Anthony Hurd
Anthony Hurd was a British Labour politician and agricultural expert who served as Member of Parliament and was later created a life peer.
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D.
Paul Birch
Paul Birch was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for his role in the early years of the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the NBA.
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E.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- 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: Patrick Michael Grundy Target entity description: Patrick Michael Grundy was a British mathematician best known for his foundational work in combinatorial game theory, particularly the development of the Sprague–Grundy theorem.
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A.
Patrick Hughes
Patrick Hughes is an Australian film director best known for helming action movies such as *The Expendables 3* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*.
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B.
Patrick Graham
Patrick Graham was a 15th-century Scottish churchman who became the first Archbishop of St Andrews and played a key role in elevating the Scottish Church’s independence from English ecclesiastical authority.
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C.
Anthony Hurd
Anthony Hurd was a British Labour politician and agricultural expert who served as Member of Parliament and was later created a life peer.
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D.
Paul Birch
Paul Birch was an American professional basketball coach and former player best known for his role in the early years of the Basketball Association of America, a precursor to the NBA.
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E.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematical concept ⓘ mathematical theorem ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | theory of impartial games ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
combinatorial game theory
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combinatorial game theory ⓘ combinatorial game theory ⓘ combinatorics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasConceptNamedAfter | Grundy number NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableAchievement | formalization of impartial combinatorial games via Grundy numbers ⓘ |
| influenced | later research in combinatorial game theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of the Sprague–Grundy theorem
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foundational work in combinatorial game theory ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Patrick Michael Grundy
NERFINISHED
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Patrick Michael Grundy NERFINISHED ⓘ Roland Percival Sprague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Sprague–Grundy theorem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| sharesCreditWith | Roland Percival Sprague 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: Patrick Michael Grundy Description of subject: Patrick Michael Grundy was a British mathematician best known for his foundational work in combinatorial game theory, particularly the development of the Sprague–Grundy theorem.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.