James Jeans
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James Jeans was a British physicist, astronomer, and mathematician known for his pioneering work in radiation theory, stellar structure, and the early development of quantum and statistical mechanics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Jeans canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1462776 — 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: James Jeans Context triple: [Rayleigh–Jeans law at low frequencies, namedAfter, James Jeans]
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A.
John Hudson
John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
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B.
Andrew Darwin
Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
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James Marvyn
James Marvyn is a central fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister's Wooing," serving as a romantic lead whose presumed death and unexpected return drive much of the story’s emotional and moral conflict.
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D.
James Black
James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
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E.
John Overton
John Overton was an early American judge, land speculator, and close associate of Andrew Jackson who played a key role in the development of Tennessee.
- 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: James Jeans Target entity description: James Jeans was a British physicist, astronomer, and mathematician known for his pioneering work in radiation theory, stellar structure, and the early development of quantum and statistical mechanics.
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A.
John Hudson
John Hudson was one of the sons of the English explorer Henry Hudson, who is believed to have accompanied his father on his final, ill-fated voyage in search of a Northwest Passage.
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B.
Andrew Darwin
Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
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C.
James Marvyn
James Marvyn is a central fictional character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister's Wooing," serving as a romantic lead whose presumed death and unexpected return drive much of the story’s emotional and moral conflict.
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D.
James Black
James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
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E.
John Overton
John Overton was an early American judge, land speculator, and close associate of Andrew Jackson who played a key role in the development of Tennessee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: James Jeans Description of subject: James Jeans was a British physicist, astronomer, and mathematician known for his pioneering work in radiation theory, stellar structure, and the early development of quantum and statistical mechanics.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.