Eddington
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astrophysicist
family name
human
mathematician
physicist
science writer
scientific expedition
surname
Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eddington canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3096100 — 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: Eddington Context triple: [Arthur Stanley Eddington, familyName, Eddington]
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Eddington site
The Eddington site is a major University of Cambridge development that provides new academic, residential, and community facilities as part of the university’s northwest Cambridge expansion.
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B.
Infeld
Infeld is the surname of Leopold Infeld, a notable Polish theoretical physicist who collaborated with Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity.
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C.
Barnard
Barnard is a surname and given name of English and French origin, borne by various notable individuals and institutions.
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D.
Michell
Michell is a given name and surname that functions as a variant spelling of Mitchell.
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E.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
- 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: Eddington Target entity description: Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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A.
Eddington site
The Eddington site is a major University of Cambridge development that provides new academic, residential, and community facilities as part of the university’s northwest Cambridge expansion.
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B.
Infeld
Infeld is the surname of Leopold Infeld, a notable Polish theoretical physicist who collaborated with Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity.
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C.
Barnard
Barnard is a surname and given name of English and French origin, borne by various notable individuals and institutions.
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D.
Michell
Michell is a given name and surname that functions as a variant spelling of Mitchell.
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E.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Eddington Description of subject: Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arthur Stanley Eddington