Anton Zeilinger
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Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian physicist renowned for his pioneering experiments in quantum entanglement and foundational contributions to quantum information science.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anton Zeilinger canonical | 8 |
| Zeilinger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T848764 — 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: Anton Zeilinger Context triple: [Wolf Prize in Physics, hasLaureate, Anton Zeilinger]
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Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments on quantum entanglement that confirmed key predictions of quantum mechanics and contributed to his sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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David Deutsch
David Deutsch is a British physicist and philosopher best known as a pioneer of quantum computation and a leading proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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C.
Carl E. Wieman
Carl E. Wieman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in Bose–Einstein condensation and contributions to physics education.
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D.
Irmfried Eberl
Irmfried Eberl was an Austrian Nazi physician and SS officer who became the first commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp, playing a key role in the implementation of the Holocaust.
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E.
Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate whose innovations in particle accelerator technology were crucial to major discoveries in high-energy physics.
- 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: Anton Zeilinger Target entity description: Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian physicist renowned for his pioneering experiments in quantum entanglement and foundational contributions to quantum information science.
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A.
Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments on quantum entanglement that confirmed key predictions of quantum mechanics and contributed to his sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
David Deutsch
David Deutsch is a British physicist and philosopher best known as a pioneer of quantum computation and a leading proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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C.
Carl E. Wieman
Carl E. Wieman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in Bose–Einstein condensation and contributions to physics education.
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D.
Irmfried Eberl
Irmfried Eberl was an Austrian Nazi physician and SS officer who became the first commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp, playing a key role in the implementation of the Holocaust.
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E.
Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate whose innovations in particle accelerator technology were crucial to major discoveries in high-energy physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Physics
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ quantum physicist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in physics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
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surface form:
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria ⓘ
surface form:
Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria
Isaac Newton Medal ⓘ John Stewart Bell Prize ⓘ King Faisal International Prize in Science ⓘ
surface form:
King Faisal International Prize for Science
Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ Wolf Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Austria ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-05-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Vienna ⓘ |
| employer |
Austrian Academy of Sciences
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University of Vienna ⓘ |
| familyName |
Anton Zeilinger
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Zeilinger
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| fieldOfWork |
foundations of quantum mechanics
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physics ⓘ quantum information science ⓘ quantum optics ⓘ quantum physics ⓘ |
| givenName | Anton ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Helmut Rauch ⓘ |
| knownFor |
entanglement swapping
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experimental tests of Bell inequalities ⓘ foundational contributions to quantum information science ⓘ multi-photon entanglement ⓘ quantum cryptography experiments ⓘ quantum entanglement experiments ⓘ quantum teleportation experiments ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academia Europaea
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Austrian Academy of Sciences ⓘ German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ⓘ |
| name | Anton Zeilinger self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Austrian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
demonstrations of entanglement swapping
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experimental realization of quantum teleportation ⓘ experiments on multi-particle entanglement ⓘ loophole-reduced tests of Bell inequalities ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Innviertel
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surface form:
Ried im Innkreis
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| positionHeld |
president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
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professor of physics at the University of Vienna ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Vienna ⓘ |
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: Anton Zeilinger Description of subject: Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian physicist renowned for his pioneering experiments in quantum entanglement and foundational contributions to quantum information science.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zeilinger