Jack Steinberger
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Jack Steinberger was a German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics, particularly in the study of neutrinos.
All labels observed (1)
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| Jack Steinberger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10635898 — 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: Jack Steinberger Context triple: [Melvin Schwartz, coRecipientOfAward, Jack Steinberger]
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A.
Jerome Friedman
Jerome Friedman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering experimental work that confirmed the existence of quarks as fundamental constituents of matter.
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B.
Martin Perl
Martin Perl was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his experimental discovery of the tau lepton, a heavier cousin of the electron.
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C.
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the antiproton.
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D.
Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in neutrino physics, including the first direct detection of the muon neutrino.
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E.
Leon Lederman
Leon Lederman was an American experimental physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics, including the discovery of the muon neutrino and contributions to the development of the Standard Model.
- 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: Jack Steinberger Target entity description: Jack Steinberger was a German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics, particularly in the study of neutrinos.
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A.
Jerome Friedman
Jerome Friedman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering experimental work that confirmed the existence of quarks as fundamental constituents of matter.
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B.
Martin Perl
Martin Perl was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his experimental discovery of the tau lepton, a heavier cousin of the electron.
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C.
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the antiproton.
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D.
Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in neutrino physics, including the first direct detection of the muon neutrino.
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E.
Leon Lederman
Leon Lederman was an American experimental physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics, including the discovery of the muon neutrino and contributions to the development of the Standard Model.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
ⓘ
human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in physics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Medal of Science
ⓘ
Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Leon M. Lederman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Melvin Schwartz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-05-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-12-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Illinois Institute of Technology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Chicago ⓘ University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer |
CERN
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Steinberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
experimental physics
ⓘ
particle physics ⓘ |
| fullName | Hans Jakob Steinberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Hans
ⓘ
Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | four sons ⓘ |
| knownFor |
discovery of the muon neutrino
ⓘ
research on neutrinos ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Physical Society
ⓘ
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| movedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| movementReason | escape from Nazi persecution ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.category | Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.motivation | for the discovery of the muon neutrino ⓘ |
| NobelPrize.year | 1988 ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Samuel C. C. Ting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Brookhaven neutrino experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Geneva, Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor of physics at Columbia University
ⓘ
staff physicist at CERN ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| residence | Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Celine Steinberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Jack Steinberger Description of subject: Jack Steinberger was a German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics, particularly in the study of neutrinos.
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