Binnig
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Binnig is a German surname most notably associated with physicist Gerd Binnig, co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope and Nobel Prize laureate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Binnig canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5722436 — 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: Binnig Context triple: [Gerd Binnig, familyName, Binnig]
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A.
Brig-Glis
Brig-Glis is a Swiss town in the canton of Valais, known as a regional transport hub near the Simplon Pass and an important gateway to the Alps.
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B.
Rossikon
Rossikon is the Russian Orthodox St. Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos, historically associated with Russian monasticism and pilgrimage.
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C.
Murino
Murino is a rapidly growing suburban town on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg in northwestern Russia.
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D.
Seebruck
Seebruck is a Bavarian lakeside village and popular holiday resort on the northern shore of Lake Chiemsee in southern Germany.
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E.
Rätikon
Rätikon is a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps, spanning parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria, known for its rugged limestone peaks and popular hiking and climbing routes.
- 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: Binnig Target entity description: Binnig is a German surname most notably associated with physicist Gerd Binnig, co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope and Nobel Prize laureate.
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A.
Brig-Glis
Brig-Glis is a Swiss town in the canton of Valais, known as a regional transport hub near the Simplon Pass and an important gateway to the Alps.
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B.
Rossikon
Rossikon is the Russian Orthodox St. Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos, historically associated with Russian monasticism and pilgrimage.
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C.
Murino
Murino is a rapidly growing suburban town on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg in northwestern Russia.
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D.
Seebruck
Seebruck is a Bavarian lakeside village and popular holiday resort on the northern shore of Lake Chiemsee in southern Germany.
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E.
Rätikon
Rätikon is a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps, spanning parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria, known for its rugged limestone peaks and popular hiking and climbing routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel Prize
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ scientific instrument ⓘ |
| awardFor | outstanding contributions in physics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
EPS Europhysics Prize
NERFINISHED
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IBM Fellow NERFINISHED ⓘ King Faisal International Prize for Science NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ Otto Klung Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coInvented | scanning tunneling microscope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| employer | IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Binnig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
condensed matter physics
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nanotechnology ⓘ surface science ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
experimental physics
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nanotechnology ⓘ surface physics ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Gerd Binnig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-inventing the scanning tunneling microscope
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work in scanning probe microscopy ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| occupation | physicist ⓘ |
| sharesInventionOfScanningTunnelingMicroscopeWith | Heinrich Rohrer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesNobelPrizeWith | Heinrich Rohrer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | scanning probe microscope ⓘ |
| workedAt | IBM Zürich Research Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Binnig Description of subject: Binnig is a German surname most notably associated with physicist Gerd Binnig, co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope and Nobel Prize laureate.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.