Max Planck
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Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist regarded as the founder of quantum theory and a key figure in modern physics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Planck canonical | 92 |
| Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T85926 — 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: Max Planck Context triple: [Germany, hasNotableScientist, Max Planck]
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Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
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Max Born
Max Born was a German physicist and Nobel laureate who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics, particularly in the statistical interpretation of the wave function.
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Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose empiricist ideas about science and perception significantly shaped the development of logical positivism and modern philosophy of science.
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Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma was a German Wehrmacht general and tank commander in World War II, best known for leading armored forces in the North African campaign.
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Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emil du Bois-Reymond was a 19th-century German physiologist renowned for his pioneering work on bioelectricity and the physiology of the nervous system.
- 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: Max Planck Target entity description: Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist regarded as the founder of quantum theory and a key figure in modern physics.
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A.
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
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B.
Max Born
Max Born was a German physicist and Nobel laureate who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics, particularly in the statistical interpretation of the wave function.
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C.
Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose empiricist ideas about science and perception significantly shaped the development of logical positivism and modern philosophy of science.
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D.
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma was a German Wehrmacht general and tank commander in World War II, best known for leading armored forces in the North African campaign.
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E.
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emil du Bois-Reymond was a 19th-century German physiologist renowned for his pioneering work on bioelectricity and the physiology of the nervous system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Max Planck Description of subject: Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist regarded as the founder of quantum theory and a key figure in modern physics.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Max Planck Institute for Psychiatrie (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
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Max Planck
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subject surface form:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
subject surface form:
Max Planck Society
subject surface form:
Max Planck
this entity surface form:
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
subject surface form:
Planck length
subject surface form:
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt
subject surface form:
First Solvay Conference on Physics