John Preskill
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John Preskill is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum information theory and quantum gravity, and for founding the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech.
All labels observed (1)
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| John Preskill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6397086 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Preskill Context triple: [information loss paradox, debatedBy, John Preskill]
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Niven Busch
Niven Busch was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his work on hardboiled crime and film noir adaptations in Hollywood’s classic era.
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B.
William K. Wootters
William K. Wootters is an American theoretical physicist known for his foundational contributions to quantum information theory, including work on entanglement measures and quantum teleportation.
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C.
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett is an American physicist and information theorist known as a founder of quantum information science, particularly for his work on quantum cryptography and the thermodynamics of information.
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D.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
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E.
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and cryptography, including contributions to complexity theory and algorithm design.
- 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: John Preskill Target entity description: John Preskill is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum information theory and quantum gravity, and for founding the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech.
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A.
Niven Busch
Niven Busch was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his work on hardboiled crime and film noir adaptations in Hollywood’s classic era.
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B.
William K. Wootters
William K. Wootters is an American theoretical physicist known for his foundational contributions to quantum information theory, including work on entanglement measures and quantum teleportation.
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C.
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett is an American physicist and information theorist known as a founder of quantum information science, particularly for his work on quantum cryptography and the thermodynamics of information.
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D.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
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E.
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and cryptography, including contributions to complexity theory and algorithm design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American scientist
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human ⓘ research institute ⓘ science blog ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| affiliation |
California Institute of Technology
NERFINISHED
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California Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
APS Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
NERFINISHED
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Dirac Medal of the ICTP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Steven Weinberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| familyName | Preskill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
high-energy physics
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quantum computation ⓘ quantum gravity ⓘ quantum information theory ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| founded | Institute for Quantum Information and Matter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBlog | Quantum Frontiers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
black hole information paradox
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gauge theories ⓘ quantum error correction ⓘ quantum field theory ⓘ topological quantum computation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coining the term quantum supremacy
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founding the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter ⓘ work in quantum gravity ⓘ work in quantum information theory ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Physical Society ⓘ |
| name | John Preskill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableConcept | quantum supremacy ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Daniel Gottesman
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Patrick Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Aaronson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | California Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workplace | California Institute of Technology 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: John Preskill Description of subject: John Preskill is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum information theory and quantum gravity, and for founding the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.