Bloch
E166544
Nobel laureate
banker
biochemist
family name
historian
mathematician
philosopher
physician
physicist
surname
war theorist
writer
Bloch is a surname most notably associated with Felix Bloch, the Swiss-American physicist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bloch canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1455574 — 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: Bloch Context triple: [Felix Bloch, familyName, Bloch]
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A.
Blum
Blum is a surname of German and Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as mathematics, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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C.
Langevin Block
The Langevin Block is a historic federal government office building in Ottawa, Canada, that houses the Prime Minister’s Office and senior staff.
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D.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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E.
Luce
Luce is a surname most notably associated with Henry Luce, the influential American magazine magnate and co-founder of Time Inc.
- 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: Bloch Target entity description: Bloch is a surname most notably associated with Felix Bloch, the Swiss-American physicist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
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A.
Blum
Blum is a surname of German and Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as mathematics, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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C.
Langevin Block
The Langevin Block is a historic federal government office building in Ottawa, Canada, that houses the Prime Minister’s Office and senior staff.
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D.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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E.
Luce
Luce is a surname most notably associated with Henry Luce, the influential American magazine magnate and co-founder of Time Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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banker ⓘ biochemist ⓘ family name ⓘ historian ⓘ mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physician ⓘ physicist ⓘ surname ⓘ war theorist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physics
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria
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France ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Germany ⓘ Poland ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
horror fiction
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medieval history ⓘ nuclear magnetic resonance ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
André Bloch
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Eduard Bloch ⓘ Ernst Bloch ⓘ Felix Bloch ⓘ Ivan Bloch ⓘ Konrad Bloch ⓘ Marc Bloch ⓘ Robert Bloch ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
Bloch
self-linksurface differs
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Bloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bloch self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| knownFor | pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
English
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French ⓘ German ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
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: Bloch Description of subject: Bloch is a surname most notably associated with Felix Bloch, the Swiss-American physicist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Felix Bloch
subject surface form:
Ernst Bloch
subject surface form:
Marc Bloch
subject surface form:
Konrad Bloch
subject surface form:
Ivan Bloch
subject surface form:
Robert Bloch
subject surface form:
André Bloch
subject surface form:
Eduard Bloch