Slotin
E192860
Slotin is the surname of Louis Slotin, a Canadian physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project and his fatal criticality accident.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Slotin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1717426 — 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: Slotin Context triple: [Louis Slotin, familyName, Slotin]
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Staffa
Staffa is a small uninhabited Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides, famed for its striking hexagonal basalt columns and the sea cave known as Fingal’s Cave.
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B.
Stiris
Stiris was an ancient Greek city in the region of Phocis, known as one of its notable urban centers in classical antiquity.
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C.
Stavka
Stavka was the high command of the Soviet armed forces during World War II, responsible for overall strategic direction and coordination of military operations.
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D.
Steffl
Steffl is the popular nickname for the iconic south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, a prominent symbol of the city's skyline.
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E.
Honancho
Honancho is a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan, known as a residential area with convenient access to central city districts via the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line.
- 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: Slotin Target entity description: Slotin is the surname of Louis Slotin, a Canadian physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project and his fatal criticality accident.
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A.
Staffa
Staffa is a small uninhabited Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides, famed for its striking hexagonal basalt columns and the sea cave known as Fingal’s Cave.
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B.
Stiris
Stiris was an ancient Greek city in the region of Phocis, known as one of its notable urban centers in classical antiquity.
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C.
Stavka
Stavka was the high command of the Soviet armed forces during World War II, responsible for overall strategic direction and coordination of military operations.
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D.
Steffl
Steffl is the popular nickname for the iconic south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, a prominent symbol of the city's skyline.
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E.
Honancho
Honancho is a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan, known as a residential area with convenient access to central city districts via the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian physicist
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | acute radiation syndrome ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| employer |
Los Alamos Laboratory
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Manhattan Project ⓘ |
| familyName | Slotin self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
nuclear physics
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physics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Louis ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Louis Slotin ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fatal criticality accident
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work on the Manhattan Project ⓘ |
| occupation | physicist ⓘ |
| participatedIn | development of nuclear weapons ⓘ |
| partOf | Manhattan Project personnel ⓘ |
| usedBy | Louis Slotin ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Alamos, New Mexico
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surface form:
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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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: Slotin Description of subject: Slotin is the surname of Louis Slotin, a Canadian physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project and his fatal criticality accident.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Louis Slotin