Wahl
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Wahl is a surname most notably borne by Arthur C. Wahl, an American chemist known for his role in the discovery of plutonium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wahl canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12989125 — 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: Wahl Context triple: [Arthur C. Wahl, familyName, Wahl]
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A.
Khaki Election
The Khaki Election was the 1917 Canadian federal election, dominated by wartime issues and military voters, that reshaped domestic politics on the World War I home front.
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B.
The Vote
The Vote is a stage play by James Graham that dramatizes the final 90 minutes of polling on election day, famously performed live on television during the 2015 UK general election.
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C.
The Elected
The Elected is an American indie rock band formed by Blake Sennett, known for its melodic, country-tinged sound and close ties to the Los Angeles indie scene.
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D.
Prêt à Voter
Prêt à Voter is an end-to-end verifiable voting system that uses randomized candidate orders and cryptographic techniques to allow voters to confirm their vote was counted correctly without revealing how they voted.
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E.
Election
Election is a 1999 satirical comedy film directed by Alexander Payne that follows a high school student council race to explore themes of ambition, ethics, and American politics.
- 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: Wahl Target entity description: Wahl is a surname most notably borne by Arthur C. Wahl, an American chemist known for his role in the discovery of plutonium.
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A.
Khaki Election
The Khaki Election was the 1917 Canadian federal election, dominated by wartime issues and military voters, that reshaped domestic politics on the World War I home front.
-
B.
The Vote
The Vote is a stage play by James Graham that dramatizes the final 90 minutes of polling on election day, famously performed live on television during the 2015 UK general election.
-
C.
The Elected
The Elected is an American indie rock band formed by Blake Sennett, known for its melodic, country-tinged sound and close ties to the Los Angeles indie scene.
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D.
Prêt à Voter
Prêt à Voter is an end-to-end verifiable voting system that uses randomized candidate orders and cryptographic techniques to allow voters to confirm their vote was counted correctly without revealing how they voted.
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E.
Election
Election is a 1999 satirical comedy film directed by Alexander Payne that follows a high school student council race to explore themes of ambition, ethics, and American politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American chemist
ⓘ
chemist ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Edwin M. McMillan
ⓘ
linked to:
Edwin McMillan
Glenn T. Seaborg ⓘ Joseph W. Kennedy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Iowa State University
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa State College
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Wahl ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
ⓘ
radiochemistry ⓘ |
| givenName |
Arthur
ⓘ
C. ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
German
ⓘ
Scandinavian languages ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Arthur C. Wahl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Wahl ⓘ |
| knownFor | discovery of plutonium ⓘ |
| memberOf | Manhattan Project ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first isolation of plutonium ⓘ |
| notableWork | co-discovery of plutonium-239 ⓘ |
| studied |
plutonium
ⓘ
transuranium elements ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berkeley, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Berkeley, California, United States
|
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: Wahl Description of subject: Wahl is a surname most notably borne by Arthur C. Wahl, an American chemist known for his role in the discovery of plutonium.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.