Richard Mueller
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Richard Mueller is a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work in astrophysics, geophysics, and climate science communication.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Mueller canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1638127 — 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: Richard Mueller Context triple: [Mueller, hasNotableBearer, Richard Mueller]
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A.
Robert Mueller
Robert Mueller is an American lawyer and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later served as Special Counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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B.
R. James Woolsey Jr.
R. James Woolsey Jr. is an American lawyer, diplomat, and national security expert who served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s.
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C.
Michael V. Hayden
Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general who served as director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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D.
William Colby
William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
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E.
John Dean
John Dean is a former White House Counsel best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal and his testimony against President Richard Nixon.
- 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: Richard Mueller Target entity description: Richard Mueller is a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work in astrophysics, geophysics, and climate science communication.
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A.
Robert Mueller
Robert Mueller is an American lawyer and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later served as Special Counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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B.
R. James Woolsey Jr.
R. James Woolsey Jr. is an American lawyer, diplomat, and national security expert who served as Director of Central Intelligence under President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s.
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C.
Michael V. Hayden
Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general who served as director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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D.
William Colby
William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
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E.
John Dean
John Dean is a former White House Counsel best known for his central role in the Watergate scandal and his testimony against President Richard Nixon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astrophysicist
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ professor emeritus ⓘ science communicator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MacArthur Fellowship
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National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award ⓘ Texas Instruments Foundation Founders Prize ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor |
Luis Alvarez
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surface form:
Luis Walter Alvarez
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| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName |
Müller
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surface form:
Muller
|
| fieldOfWork |
astrophysics
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climate science communication ⓘ cosmology ⓘ geophysics ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| founded |
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project
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surface form:
Berkeley Earth
|
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
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Milankovitch cycles ⓘ
surface form:
Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes
Nemesis: The Death Star ⓘ Physics for Future Presidents ⓘ
surface form:
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
The Three Big Bangs ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Richard A. Muller ⓘ |
| notableFor |
communicating complex scientific topics to non‑scientists
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public commentary on climate change and energy policy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project
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Energy for Future Presidents ⓘ Milankovitch cycles ⓘ
surface form:
Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes research
Physics for Future Presidents ⓘ The Sins of Jesus and other stories of the Bible ⓘ climate change data analysis ⓘ work on cosmic microwave background radiation ⓘ work on supernovae and cosmology ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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professor ⓘ science popularizer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
faculty member at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
climate change
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cosmic microwave background ⓘ global temperature records ⓘ orbital mechanics ⓘ paleoclimate ⓘ supernovae ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ⓘ |
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: Richard Mueller Description of subject: Richard Mueller is a physicist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work in astrophysics, geophysics, and climate science communication.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.