Jean Perrin
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Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Perrin canonical | 5 |
| Jean-Baptiste Perrin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T80166 — 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: Jean Perrin Context triple: [On the Motion of Small Particles Suspended in Liquids at Rest Required by the Molecular-Kinetic Theory of Heat, associatedWithScientist, Jean Perrin]
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I. I. Rabi
I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
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Marian Smoluchowski
Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist and pioneer of statistical physics whose work on molecular motion and fluctuations helped establish the kinetic theory of matter and advanced the understanding of Brownian motion.
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Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
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Emil Adolf von Behring
Emil Adolf von Behring was a German physiologist and immunologist renowned for developing serum therapy against diphtheria and tetanus, earning him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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E.
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling was an American chemist, peace activist, and two-time Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the nature of the chemical bond and molecular biology.
- 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: Jean Perrin Target entity description: Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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A.
I. I. Rabi
I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
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B.
Marian Smoluchowski
Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist and pioneer of statistical physics whose work on molecular motion and fluctuations helped establish the kinetic theory of matter and advanced the understanding of Brownian motion.
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C.
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
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D.
Emil Adolf von Behring
Emil Adolf von Behring was a German physiologist and immunologist renowned for developing serum therapy against diphtheria and tetanus, earning him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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E.
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling was an American chemist, peace activist, and two-time Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the nature of the chemical bond and molecular biology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jean Perrin Description of subject: Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jean-Baptiste Perrin