Polanyi
E464521
Nobel laureate
chemist
economic historian
economist
family
family name
industrial designer
person
philosopher
physical chemist
political economist
surname
Polanyi is a surname most notably associated with a family of influential scholars, including physical chemist and Nobel laureate John Polanyi and philosopher-economist Michael Polanyi.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polanyi canonical | 3 |
| Georg Polanyi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4716352 — 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: Polanyi Context triple: [John Polanyi, familyName, Polanyi]
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A.
Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian economic historian and social theorist best known for his influential work "The Great Transformation," which critiqued market liberalism and analyzed the social and political origins of modern capitalist economies.
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B.
Anne Polanyi
Anne Polanyi is known as the wife of Nobel Prize–winning chemist John Polanyi.
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C.
Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi was a Hungarian-British polymath and philosopher of science known for his critique of positivism and his influential concept of tacit knowledge.
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D.
Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter was an American economic historian and editor known for preserving and publishing the works of her husband, economist Joseph Schumpeter.
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E.
Magda Elizabeth Polanyi
Magda Elizabeth Polanyi is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning chemist John Polanyi, belonging to the prominent Polanyi family known for its contributions to science and philosophy.
- 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: Polanyi Target entity description: Polanyi is a surname most notably associated with a family of influential scholars, including physical chemist and Nobel laureate John Polanyi and philosopher-economist Michael Polanyi.
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A.
Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian economic historian and social theorist best known for his influential work "The Great Transformation," which critiqued market liberalism and analyzed the social and political origins of modern capitalist economies.
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B.
Anne Polanyi
Anne Polanyi is known as the wife of Nobel Prize–winning chemist John Polanyi.
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C.
Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi was a Hungarian-British polymath and philosopher of science known for his critique of positivism and his influential concept of tacit knowledge.
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D.
Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter was an American economic historian and editor known for preserving and publishing the works of her husband, economist Joseph Schumpeter.
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E.
Magda Elizabeth Polanyi
Magda Elizabeth Polanyi is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning chemist John Polanyi, belonging to the prominent Polanyi family known for its contributions to science and philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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chemist ⓘ economic historian ⓘ economist ⓘ family ⓘ family name ⓘ industrial designer ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physical chemist ⓘ political economist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wolf Prize in Chemistry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Éva Amália Polányi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | John Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childOf | Michael Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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Hungary ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Manchester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ceramic design
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chemical kinetics ⓘ economic anthropology ⓘ epistemology ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ physical chemistry ⓘ reaction dynamics ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRelation | Polanyi family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Eva Zeisel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Eva Zeisel
NERFINISHED
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John Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Polanyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | scholarly contributions ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Hungarian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Personal Knowledge
NERFINISHED
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The Great Transformation NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tacit Dimension NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Karl Polanyi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Polanyi 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: Polanyi Description of subject: Polanyi is a surname most notably associated with a family of influential scholars, including physical chemist and Nobel laureate John Polanyi and philosopher-economist Michael Polanyi.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Polanyi
subject surface form:
John Polanyi
this entity surface form:
Georg Polanyi