Marie Curie
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Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and chemist renowned for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity and as the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marie Curie canonical | 39 |
| Madame Curie | 4 |
| Marie Skłodowska-Curie | 2 |
| Maria Salomea Skłodowska | 1 |
| Maria Skłodowska | 1 |
| Maria Skłodowska-Curie | 1 |
| Marie Skłodowska‑Curie | 1 |
| Skłodowska | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T130427 — 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: Marie Curie Context triple: [Nobel Prize in Physics, notableLaureate, Marie Curie]
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A.
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and pioneer of artificial radioactivity who played a key role in early nuclear research and was active in peace and anti-nuclear movements.
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B.
Ava Helen Pauling
Ava Helen Pauling was an American human rights, peace, and civil liberties activist who worked closely with her husband, Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, in campaigns against nuclear weapons testing and for social justice.
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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.
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether was a pioneering German mathematician whose groundbreaking work in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, especially Noether's theorem linking symmetries and conservation laws, profoundly shaped modern mathematics and physics.
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E.
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić was a Serbian mathematician and physicist who was Albert Einstein’s first wife and an early collaborator during his formative scientific years.
- 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: Marie Curie Target entity description: Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and chemist renowned for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity and as the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
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A.
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and pioneer of artificial radioactivity who played a key role in early nuclear research and was active in peace and anti-nuclear movements.
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B.
Ava Helen Pauling
Ava Helen Pauling was an American human rights, peace, and civil liberties activist who worked closely with her husband, Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, in campaigns against nuclear weapons testing and for social justice.
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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.
Emmy Noether
Emmy Noether was a pioneering German mathematician whose groundbreaking work in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, especially Noether's theorem linking symmetries and conservation laws, profoundly shaped modern mathematics and physics.
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E.
Mileva Marić
Mileva Marić was a Serbian mathematician and physicist who was Albert Einstein’s first wife and an early collaborator during his formative scientific years.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
ⓘ
chemist ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | doctorate in physics ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Marie Curie
ⓘ
surface form:
Madame Curie
Marie Curie ⓘ
surface form:
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
|
| awardReceived |
Davy Medal
ⓘ
Matteucci Medal ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry (through its scientists) ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| birthName |
Marie Curie
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Maria Skłodowska
|
| burialPlace | Panthéon, Paris ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | aplastic anemia ⓘ |
| child |
Irène Joliot-Curie
ⓘ
Ève Curie ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
ⓘ
Poland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1867-11-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1934-07-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Flying University
ⓘ
Panthéon-Sorbonne University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
|
| employer |
Radium Institute
ⓘ
Panthéon-Sorbonne University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
|
| familyName |
Marie Curie
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Skłodowska
|
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
ⓘ
physics ⓘ radioactivity ⓘ |
| firsts |
first person to win two Nobel Prizes
ⓘ
first woman to win a Nobel Prize ⓘ only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria ⓘ |
| influenced |
Irène Joliot-Curie
ⓘ
development of radiotherapy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of mobile radiography units
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discovery of polonium ⓘ discovery of radium ⓘ research on radioactivity ⓘ |
| movement | women in science ⓘ |
| nationality |
French
ⓘ
Polish ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeInChemistryYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeInPhysicsYear | 1903 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
isolation of polonium
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isolation of radium ⓘ treatise on radioactivity ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)
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surface form:
Kingdom of Poland
Russian Empire ⓘ Warsaw ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
France
ⓘ
Passy, Haute-Savoie ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at the University of Paris ⓘ |
| religion | raised Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeInPhysicsWith |
Henri Becquerel
ⓘ
Pierre Curie ⓘ |
| spouse | Pierre Curie ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Marie Curie Description of subject: Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and chemist renowned for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity and as the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Skłodowska
this entity surface form:
Maria Skłodowska
this entity surface form:
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
this entity surface form:
Madame Curie
subject surface form:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
this entity surface form:
Marie Skłodowska‑Curie
this entity surface form:
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
subject surface form:
Treatise on Radioactivity
this entity surface form:
Madame Curie
subject surface form:
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
this entity surface form:
Maria Salomea Skłodowska
subject surface form:
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
this entity surface form:
Madame Curie
this entity surface form:
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
this entity surface form:
Madame Curie
subject surface form:
First Solvay Conference on Physics