Béla Wigner (brother-in-law)
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Béla Wigner (brother-in-law) refers to the sibling of Paul Dirac’s spouse, connecting the physicist by marriage to the family of Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Béla Wigner (brother-in-law) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1780336 — 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: Béla Wigner (brother-in-law) Context triple: [Paul Dirac, sibling, Béla Wigner (brother-in-law)]
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A.
Gertrud Weiss Szilard
Gertrud Weiss Szilard was the wife of Hungarian-American physicist and Manhattan Project contributor Leo Szilard.
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B.
Wigner Jenő Pál
Wigner Jenő Pál was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to the theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.
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C.
Eduard Einstein
Eduard Einstein was the younger son of physicist Albert Einstein, known for his early promise in psychiatry and his later struggles with severe mental illness.
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D.
Eugene Wigner
Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose pioneering work in quantum mechanics and the theory of symmetries profoundly shaped modern physics.
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E.
Hermann Einstein
Hermann Einstein was a German engineer and businessman best known as the father of physicist Albert Einstein.
- 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: Béla Wigner (brother-in-law) Target entity description: Béla Wigner (brother-in-law) refers to the sibling of Paul Dirac’s spouse, connecting the physicist by marriage to the family of Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner.
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A.
Gertrud Weiss Szilard
Gertrud Weiss Szilard was the wife of Hungarian-American physicist and Manhattan Project contributor Leo Szilard.
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B.
Wigner Jenő Pál
Wigner Jenő Pál was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to the theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.
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C.
Eduard Einstein
Eduard Einstein was the younger son of physicist Albert Einstein, known for his early promise in psychiatry and his later struggles with severe mental illness.
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D.
Eugene Wigner
Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose pioneering work in quantum mechanics and the theory of symmetries profoundly shaped modern physics.
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E.
Hermann Einstein
Hermann Einstein was a German engineer and businessman best known as the father of physicist Albert Einstein.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| brotherInLawOf | Paul Dirac ⓘ |
| familyName |
Eugene Wigner
ⓘ
surface form:
Wigner
|
| givenName | Béla ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRelationType | brother-in-law of Paul Dirac ⓘ |
| hasInLaw |
Margit Wigner
ⓘ
surface form:
Béla Wigner
|
| hasRelative |
Margit Wigner
ⓘ
surface form:
Béla Wigner
|
| notableFor |
being a member of the Wigner family related to Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner
ⓘ
being the brother-in-law of physicist Paul Dirac ⓘ |
| relativeOf | Eugene Wigner ⓘ |
| sharesFamilyNameWith |
Eugene Wigner
ⓘ
Margit Wigner ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Eugene Wigner
ⓘ
surface form:
Béla Wigner
Margit Wigner ⓘ |
| spouse | Margit Wigner ⓘ |
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: Béla Wigner (brother-in-law) Description of subject: Béla Wigner (brother-in-law) refers to the sibling of Paul Dirac’s spouse, connecting the physicist by marriage to the family of Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.