discoveredBy
P412
predicate
Indicates that something was found, identified, or brought to light through the efforts or actions of a particular agent.
All labels observed (55)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| discoveredBy canonical | 2,568 |
| discovered | 936 |
| discoverer | 152 |
| discoveredByEuropeans | 94 |
| firstRecordedBy | 82 |
| rediscoveredBy | 29 |
| wasDiscoveredBy | 21 |
| discovererOf | 19 |
| co-discovered | 16 |
| tombDiscoveredBy | 7 |
| firstCataloguedBy | 5 |
| discoveredByEuropean | 3 |
| firstObservedBy | 3 |
| firstSurveyedBy | 3 |
| independentlyDiscoveredBy | 3 |
| HiggsBosonDiscoveryExperiments | 2 |
| JuanitaDiscoveredBy | 2 |
| discoveredByModernWorld | 2 |
| discoveredByScience | 2 |
| discoveredBySurvey | 2 |
| discovererOfVariability | 2 |
| discovererOrInventor | 2 |
| firstCatalogedBy | 2 |
| satelliteDiscoveredBy | 2 |
| bustDiscoveredBy | 1 |
| discoveredByEuropeansBy | 1 |
| discoveredByInCanon | 1 |
| discoveredByModernJapan | 1 |
| discoveredByModernScholarsIn | 1 |
| discoveredByModernScience | 1 |
| discoveredByOccupation | 1 |
| discoveredBySurfers | 1 |
| discoveredByWesterners | 1 |
| discoveredExoplanetBy | 1 |
| discovererOfConstellationTelescopium | 1 |
| discovererOfEponym | 1 |
| discovererOrDeveloper | 1 |
| discovererOrExplorer | 1 |
| discovererOrInventorOf | 1 |
| discovererOrMaker | 1 |
| discoveriesAtUranus | 1 |
| discoveryOfPlutoBy | 1 |
| firstConfirmedDiscovery | 1 |
| firstEuropeanRecordedBy | 1 |
| firstMajorDiscoverer | 1 |
| firstToDiscover | 1 |
| goldDiscoveredBy | 1 |
| historicalDiscoveryBy | 1 |
| holotypeDiscoverer | 1 |
| insecticidalPropertiesDiscoveredBy | 1 |
| lettersAreDiscoveredBy | 1 |
| modernDiscoveryBy | 1 |
| nickelDiscoveryBy | 1 |
| notableDiscoverer | 1 |
| wereDiscoveredBy | 1 |
Description generation (PDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.
Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning. # Instructions Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. # Response Format Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: discoveredBy
Generated description
Indicates that something was found, identified, or brought to light through the efforts or actions of a particular agent.
Sample triples (3,990)
| Subject | Object |
|---|---|
| Sam Phillips | Jerry Lee Lewis via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Sam Phillips | Carl Perkins via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Sam Phillips | Howlin' Wolf via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Sam Phillips |
B. B. King
via predicate surface "discovered"
ⓘ
surface form:
B.B. King
|
| Knossos | Minos Kalokairinos ⓘ |
| Acadian orogeny | 19th-century geologists studying the Appalachians ⓘ |
| voyages of Henry the Navigator |
Madeira
via predicate surface "discovered"
ⓘ
surface form:
Madeira Islands (for Portugal)
|
| voyages of Henry the Navigator |
Azores
via predicate surface "discovered"
ⓘ
surface form:
Azores (for Portugal)
|
| Röntgen radiation |
Wilhelm Röntgen
ⓘ
surface form:
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
|
| Zakros | early 20th century via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Grotte de Pech Merle | André David ⓘ |
| Grotte de Pech Merle | Henri Dutetre ⓘ |
|
the Wallace Line
surface form:
Wallace Line
|
Alfred Russel Wallace ⓘ |
| Paweł Edmund Strzelecki | Mount Kosciuszko via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| zanamivir | Mark von Itzstein ⓘ |
| Lavinia Norcross Dickinson | Emily Dickinson’s cache of poems after Emily’s death via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Baade’s star | Walter Baade ⓘ |
| Grotte de Bétharram | Léon Ross ⓘ |
| Robert Bunsen | cesium via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Robert Bunsen | rubidium via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Onchocerca volvulus | Rudolph Leuckart ⓘ |
| This Land Is Your Land | Woody Guthrie via predicate surface "firstRecordedBy" ⓘ |
| Grotte de Dargilan | Armand Viré ⓘ |
| Redonda | Christopher Columbus via predicate surface "discoveredByEuropeans" ⓘ |
| Rosetta Stone | French soldiers ⓘ |
| Rosetta Stone | Pierre-François Bouchard ⓘ |
| 1567–1569 Solomon Islands expedition | Solomon Islands via predicate surface "discovererOf" ⓘ |
| einsteinium | Albert Ghiorso ⓘ |
| einsteinium | Berkeley Lab scientists ⓘ |
| Joinville Island group | 19th-century Antarctic explorers ⓘ |
| Ramanujan partition congruences | Srinivasa Ramanujan via predicate surface "discoverer" ⓘ |
| Szilard–Chalmers effect |
Leo Szilard
ⓘ
surface form:
Leó Szilárd
|
| Szilard–Chalmers effect | Thomas A. Chalmers ⓘ |
| Arlington Springs Man site | Phil C. Orr ⓘ |
| Grotte de Mas d’Azil | local inhabitants ⓘ |
| Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | Pete Seeger via predicate surface "firstRecordedBy" ⓘ |
| Christian Bohr | Bohr effect via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
|
Mendaña
surface form:
Solomon Islands
|
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira ⓘ |
| Smith Island | William Smith ⓘ |
| Faraday effect | Michael Faraday ⓘ |
| Grotte de l’Aven Armand | Louis Armand ⓘ |
| Alexander Fleming | penicillin via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Alexander Fleming | lysozyme via predicate surface "discovered" ⓘ |
| Dysnomia | Michael E. Brown ⓘ |
| Dysnomia | Chad Trujillo ⓘ |
| Dysnomia |
David L. Rabinowitz
ⓘ
surface form:
David Rabinowitz
|
| Andromeda IV | Sidney van den Bergh ⓘ |
| Messier 20 | Charles Messier ⓘ |
| seaborgium | Albert Ghiorso via predicate surface "discoverer" ⓘ |
| seaborgium | American–Soviet collaboration via predicate surface "discoverer" ⓘ |