Johannes Stark
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Johannes Stark was a German physicist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the Stark effect, the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johannes Stark canonical | 4 |
| Johann Stark | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T732025 — 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: Johannes Stark Context triple: [Max Planck Medal, hasRecipient, Johannes Stark]
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Max von Laue
Max von Laue was a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of X-ray diffraction in crystals, which provided crucial evidence for the wave nature of X-rays and the atomic structure of matter.
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B.
James Franck
James Franck was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for the Franck–Hertz experiment and his later work on the Manhattan Project in the United States.
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C.
Julius Plücker
Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
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D.
Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Sommerfeld was a pioneering German theoretical physicist whose work in atomic and quantum theory significantly shaped modern physics and influenced generations of prominent scientists.
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E.
Walther Meissner
Walther Meissner was a German physicist best known for his pioneering work in superconductivity, particularly the discovery of the Meissner effect.
- 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: Johannes Stark Target entity description: Johannes Stark was a German physicist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the Stark effect, the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.
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A.
Max von Laue
Max von Laue was a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of X-ray diffraction in crystals, which provided crucial evidence for the wave nature of X-rays and the atomic structure of matter.
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B.
James Franck
James Franck was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for the Franck–Hertz experiment and his later work on the Manhattan Project in the United States.
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C.
Julius Plücker
Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
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D.
Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Sommerfeld was a pioneering German theoretical physicist whose work in atomic and quantum theory significantly shaped modern physics and influenced generations of prominent scientists.
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E.
Walther Meissner
Walther Meissner was a German physicist best known for his pioneering work in superconductivity, particularly the discovery of the Meissner effect.
- 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: Johannes Stark Description of subject: Johannes Stark was a German physicist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the Stark effect, the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Johann Stark