What Is Life?
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"What Is Life?" is a landmark 1944 scientific book by physicist Erwin Schrödinger that explores the physical and molecular basis of living systems and helped inspire the development of molecular biology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| What Is Life | 2 |
| What Is Life? canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2176941 — 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: What Is Life? Context triple: [Erwin Schrödinger, notableWork, What Is Life?]
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A.
What Is Life?
*What Is Life?* is a book by biologist Lynn Margulis that explores the nature of living systems through the lens of evolution, symbiosis, and Earth’s biosphere.
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B.
The Science of Life
The Science of Life is a landmark early 20th-century biology book co-authored by H.G. Wells, his son George Philip Wells, and Julian Huxley that presents modern biological science in an accessible, encyclopedic form.
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C.
The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life is a 1983 British comedy film by Monty Python that satirically explores the stages and absurdities of human existence through a series of surreal sketches.
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D.
The Language of Life
The Language of Life is a popular science book by geneticist Francis Collins that explains how advances in genomics are transforming medicine and personal health.
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E.
Meaning of Life
"Meaning of Life" is a soulful pop album by American singer Kelly Clarkson that showcases her powerful vocals and a more mature, R&B-influenced sound.
- 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: What Is Life? Target entity description: "What Is Life?" is a landmark 1944 scientific book by physicist Erwin Schrödinger that explores the physical and molecular basis of living systems and helped inspire the development of molecular biology.
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A.
What Is Life?
*What Is Life?* is a book by biologist Lynn Margulis that explores the nature of living systems through the lens of evolution, symbiosis, and Earth’s biosphere.
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B.
The Science of Life
The Science of Life is a landmark early 20th-century biology book co-authored by H.G. Wells, his son George Philip Wells, and Julian Huxley that presents modern biological science in an accessible, encyclopedic form.
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C.
The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life is a 1983 British comedy film by Monty Python that satirically explores the stages and absurdities of human existence through a series of surreal sketches.
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D.
The Language of Life
The Language of Life is a popular science book by geneticist Francis Collins that explains how advances in genomics are transforming medicine and personal health.
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E.
Meaning of Life
"Meaning of Life" is a soulful pop album by American singer Kelly Clarkson that showcases her powerful vocals and a more mature, R&B-influenced sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ scientific book ⓘ |
| author | Erwin Schrödinger ⓘ |
| basedOn | public lectures by Erwin Schrödinger ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| describedBySource | landmark 1944 scientific book by physicist Erwin Schrödinger that explores the physical and molecular basis of living systems and helped inspire the development of molecular biology ⓘ |
| discussesConcept |
entropy in living systems
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genetic code ⓘ negative entropy ⓘ quantum theory and life ⓘ |
| field |
biophysics
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genetics ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| followedBy | Mind and Matter ⓘ |
| genre |
biology
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physics ⓘ science ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780521427081 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapter on order, disorder and entropy
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chapter on the hereditary mechanism ⓘ chapter on the physical aspect of the living cell ⓘ epilogue on determinism and free will ⓘ |
| influenced |
Francis Crick
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James Watson ⓘ
surface form:
James D. Watson
Max Delbrück ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ theoretical biology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
life
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molecular basis of heredity ⓘ physical aspects of living cells ⓘ relationship between physics and biology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inspiring research on DNA structure
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linking quantum physics to biology ⓘ popularizing the idea of a molecular basis of genes ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| proposesConcept | aperiodic crystal ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| publisher | Cambridge University Press ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: What Is Life? Description of subject: "What Is Life?" is a landmark 1944 scientific book by physicist Erwin Schrödinger that explores the physical and molecular basis of living systems and helped inspire the development of molecular biology.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
What Is Life
this entity surface form:
What Is Life