Anders Celsius
E173242
Anders Celsius was an 18th-century Swedish astronomer and physicist best known for creating the Celsius temperature scale.
All labels observed (1)
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| Anders Celsius canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1510228 — 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: Anders Celsius Context triple: [Uppsala University, hasNotableAlumnus, Anders Celsius]
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Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm was an 18th-century Swedish nobleman and scholar best known as one of the founders of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Johann Heinrich Lambert
Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
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C.
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford was an 18th-century American-born British physicist, inventor, and statesman known for his pioneering work on heat and thermodynamics as well as social and military reforms.
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Svante Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius was a pioneering Swedish chemist and physicist best known for founding physical chemistry, formulating the Arrhenius equation for reaction rates, and proposing one of the first quantitative theories of the greenhouse effect.
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E.
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was an 18th-century French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer best known for formulating the principle of least action and helping introduce Newtonian physics to continental Europe.
- 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: Anders Celsius Target entity description: Anders Celsius was an 18th-century Swedish astronomer and physicist best known for creating the Celsius temperature scale.
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A.
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm was an 18th-century Swedish nobleman and scholar best known as one of the founders of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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B.
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
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C.
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford was an 18th-century American-born British physicist, inventor, and statesman known for his pioneering work on heat and thermodynamics as well as social and military reforms.
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D.
Svante Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius was a pioneering Swedish chemist and physicist best known for founding physical chemistry, formulating the Arrhenius equation for reaction rates, and proposing one of the first quantitative theories of the greenhouse effect.
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E.
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was an 18th-century French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer best known for formulating the principle of least action and helping introduce Newtonian physics to continental Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Anders Celsius Description of subject: Anders Celsius was an 18th-century Swedish astronomer and physicist best known for creating the Celsius temperature scale.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.