Lehn
E388810
Lehn is the surname of Jean-Marie Lehn, a Nobel Prize–winning French chemist renowned for pioneering the field of supramolecular chemistry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lehn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3790678 — 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: Lehn Context triple: [Jean-Marie Lehn, familyName, Lehn]
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A.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
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B.
Erasbach
Erasbach is a small locality in Bavaria, Germany, best known as the birthplace of the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
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C.
Biesenthal
Biesenthal is a small town in the Barnim district of Brandenburg, Germany, known for its surrounding lakes, forests, and location within the Barnim Nature Park.
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D.
Wertheim
Wertheim is a German-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as finance, philanthropy, and the arts.
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E.
Heurich
Heurich is a German surname most notably associated with Christian Heurich, a prominent brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Lehn Target entity description: Lehn is the surname of Jean-Marie Lehn, a Nobel Prize–winning French chemist renowned for pioneering the field of supramolecular chemistry.
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A.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
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B.
Erasbach
Erasbach is a small locality in Bavaria, Germany, best known as the birthplace of the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
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C.
Biesenthal
Biesenthal is a small town in the Barnim district of Brandenburg, Germany, known for its surrounding lakes, forests, and location within the Barnim Nature Park.
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D.
Wertheim
Wertheim is a German-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as finance, philanthropy, and the arts.
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E.
Heurich
Heurich is a German surname most notably associated with Christian Heurich, a prominent brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Chemistry
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branch of chemistry ⓘ chemist ⓘ family name ⓘ person ⓘ scientific award ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardFor | chemistry ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ |
| category |
German-language surnames
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surnames of European origin ⓘ |
| familyName | Lehn ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
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supramolecular chemistry ⓘ |
| focusesOn | molecular recognition ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean-Marie ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociation |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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supramolecular chemistry ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jean-Marie Lehn ⓘ |
| isSurnameOf | Jean-Marie Lehn ⓘ |
| knownFor | pioneering supramolecular chemistry ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| studies | non-covalent interactions ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jean-Marie Lehn ⓘ |
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: Lehn Description of subject: Lehn is the surname of Jean-Marie Lehn, a Nobel Prize–winning French chemist renowned for pioneering the field of supramolecular chemistry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lehn