Fermium
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Fermium is a synthetic, highly radioactive actinide metal with atomic number 100, first identified in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb test and named in honor of physicist Enrico Fermi.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T748475 — 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: Fermium Context triple: [Enrico Fermi, hasEponym, Fermium]
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mendelevium
Mendelevium is a synthetic, radioactive actinide element with atomic number 101, named after Dmitri Mendeleev and produced only in particle accelerators.
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lawrencium
Lawrencium is a synthetic, highly radioactive actinide element with atomic number 103, used primarily for scientific research in nuclear chemistry and physics.
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nobelium
Nobelium is a synthetic, highly radioactive actinide element with atomic number 102, named in honor of Alfred Nobel and used primarily for scientific research.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the discovery of numerous transuranium elements and his leadership in the development of the actinide concept.
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Samnium
Samnium was an ancient region of south-central Italy inhabited by the Samnites, an Oscan-speaking Italic people known for their wars with the Roman Republic.
- 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: Fermium Target entity description: Fermium is a synthetic, highly radioactive actinide metal with atomic number 100, first identified in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb test and named in honor of physicist Enrico Fermi.
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A.
mendelevium
Mendelevium is a synthetic, radioactive actinide element with atomic number 101, named after Dmitri Mendeleev and produced only in particle accelerators.
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B.
lawrencium
Lawrencium is a synthetic, highly radioactive actinide element with atomic number 103, used primarily for scientific research in nuclear chemistry and physics.
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C.
nobelium
Nobelium is a synthetic, highly radioactive actinide element with atomic number 102, named in honor of Alfred Nobel and used primarily for scientific research.
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D.
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the discovery of numerous transuranium elements and his leadership in the development of the actinide concept.
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E.
Samnium
Samnium was an ancient region of south-central Italy inhabited by the Samnites, an Oscan-speaking Italic people known for their wars with the Roman Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Fermium Description of subject: Fermium is a synthetic, highly radioactive actinide metal with atomic number 100, first identified in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb test and named in honor of physicist Enrico Fermi.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
fermium