C. V. Raman
E11123
C. V. Raman was an Indian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the Raman effect, which describes the inelastic scattering of light.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| C. V. Raman canonical | 18 |
| Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T93549 — 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: C. V. Raman Context triple: [Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, relative, C. V. Raman]
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Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian theoretical physicist whose work on quantum mechanics led to the development of Bose–Einstein statistics and the concept of bosons.
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B.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on stellar structure and evolution, particularly the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarfs.
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C.
Jean Perrin
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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D.
M. S. Swaminathan
M. S. Swaminathan was an Indian geneticist and agricultural scientist widely regarded as the chief architect of India’s Green Revolution, which transformed the country from food scarcity to self-sufficiency.
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E.
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.
- 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: C. V. Raman Target entity description: C. V. Raman was an Indian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the Raman effect, which describes the inelastic scattering of light.
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A.
Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose was an Indian theoretical physicist whose work on quantum mechanics led to the development of Bose–Einstein statistics and the concept of bosons.
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B.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on stellar structure and evolution, particularly the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarfs.
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C.
Jean Perrin
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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D.
M. S. Swaminathan
M. S. Swaminathan was an Indian geneticist and agricultural scientist widely regarded as the chief architect of India’s Green Revolution, which transformed the country from food scarcity to self-sufficiency.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
How these facts were elicited
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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: C. V. Raman Description of subject: C. V. Raman was an Indian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the Raman effect, which describes the inelastic scattering of light.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
subject surface form:
Meghnad Saha
subject surface form:
C. V. Raman
this entity surface form:
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
subject surface form:
Raman effect
subject surface form:
Raman effect
this entity surface form:
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
this entity surface form:
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman