Hermann Kosterlitz
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Hermann Kosterlitz, better known as Henry Koster, was a German-born film director who became a prominent figure in Hollywood, directing classics such as "The Bishop's Wife" and "Harvey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hermann Kosterlitz canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2873545 — 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: Hermann Kosterlitz Context triple: [Henry Koster, birthName, Hermann Kosterlitz]
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Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Ginzburg was a Soviet theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductivity and other areas of condensed matter physics.
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Fritz London
Fritz London was a German-born theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum chemistry, including foundational contributions to the understanding of intermolecular forces.
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Peter Kapitza
Peter Kapitza was a Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in low-temperature physics and the study of liquid helium.
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Oswald Jonas
Oswald Jonas was an Austrian-born music theorist and scholar best known for his work on and promotion of Heinrich Schenker’s analytical methods.
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E.
Mark Oliphant
Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics who played a key role in early atomic research and the development of radar and particle accelerators.
- 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: Hermann Kosterlitz Target entity description: Hermann Kosterlitz, better known as Henry Koster, was a German-born film director who became a prominent figure in Hollywood, directing classics such as "The Bishop's Wife" and "Harvey."
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A.
Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Ginzburg was a Soviet theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductivity and other areas of condensed matter physics.
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B.
Fritz London
Fritz London was a German-born theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum chemistry, including foundational contributions to the understanding of intermolecular forces.
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C.
Peter Kapitza
Peter Kapitza was a Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in low-temperature physics and the study of liquid helium.
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D.
Oswald Jonas
Oswald Jonas was an Austrian-born music theorist and scholar best known for his work on and promotion of Heinrich Schenker’s analytical methods.
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E.
Mark Oliphant
Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics who played a key role in early atomic research and the development of radar and particle accelerators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Hermann Kosterlitz Description of subject: Hermann Kosterlitz, better known as Henry Koster, was a German-born film director who became a prominent figure in Hollywood, directing classics such as "The Bishop's Wife" and "Harvey."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.