David L. Goodstein
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David L. Goodstein is an American physicist and educator known for his work in condensed matter physics, science education, and authorship of popular science books.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David L. Goodstein canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249069 — 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: David L. Goodstein Context triple: [Millennium Edition, editor, David L. Goodstein]
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A.
Timothy Ferris
Timothy Ferris is an American science writer and journalist known for his popular books on astronomy and cosmology and for helping bring complex scientific ideas to a broad audience.
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B.
Stanley Corrsin
Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
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C.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Norman Spinrad
Norman Spinrad is an American science fiction author known for his provocative, politically charged novels and short stories, including "Bug Jack Barron" and "The Iron Dream."
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E.
Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld is a theoretical physicist known for his influential work in statistical physics, complex systems, and fluid dynamics.
- 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: David L. Goodstein Target entity description: David L. Goodstein is an American physicist and educator known for his work in condensed matter physics, science education, and authorship of popular science books.
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A.
Timothy Ferris
Timothy Ferris is an American science writer and journalist known for his popular books on astronomy and cosmology and for helping bring complex scientific ideas to a broad audience.
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B.
Stanley Corrsin
Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
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C.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Norman Spinrad
Norman Spinrad is an American science fiction author known for his provocative, politically charged novels and short stories, including "Bug Jack Barron" and "The Iron Dream."
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E.
Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld is a theoretical physicist known for his influential work in statistical physics, complex systems, and fluid dynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American scientist
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author ⓘ educator ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
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surface form:
Caltech Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
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| awardReceived |
John P. McGovern Medal
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Oersted Medal ⓘ Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science ⓘ
surface form:
Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brooklyn College
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University of Washington ⓘ |
| employer | California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
condensed matter physics
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history of science ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ physics education ⓘ science communication ⓘ |
| genre |
popular science
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science education ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
climate and sustainability
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energy resources ⓘ phase transitions ⓘ statistical mechanics ⓘ thermodynamics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
popular science books
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science education ⓘ work in condensed matter physics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Physical Society ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
pedagogical approaches to teaching physics
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public communication of energy sustainability issues ⓘ |
| notableStudent | various Caltech physics students ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Feynman’s Lost Lecture
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Mechanical Universe (Caltech TV series contributions) ⓘ Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil ⓘ States of Matter ⓘ Teaching Physics ⓘ |
| occupation |
physicist
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science writer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Physics at California Institute of Technology
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Vice Provost of California Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| spouse | Judith R. Goodstein ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Pasadena
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surface form:
Pasadena, California
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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: David L. Goodstein Description of subject: David L. Goodstein is an American physicist and educator known for his work in condensed matter physics, science education, and authorship of popular science books.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.