Langmuir
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Langmuir is a surname most notably associated with Irving Langmuir, the American chemist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work in surface chemistry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Langmuir canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4655415 — 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: Langmuir Context triple: [Irving Langmuir, familyName, Langmuir]
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
The Journal of the American Chemical Society is a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research articles across all fields of chemistry.
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Journal of Chemical Physics
The Journal of Chemical Physics is a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on research in chemical physics and related fields such as physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics.
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ACS Catalysis
ACS Catalysis is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on cutting-edge research in catalysis across chemistry, biology, and engineering.
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Nano Letters
Nano Letters is a high-impact, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society that focuses on cutting-edge research in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on research at the interface of materials science, chemistry, and engineering, particularly in applied and functional materials.
- 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: Langmuir Target entity description: Langmuir is a surname most notably associated with Irving Langmuir, the American chemist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work in surface chemistry.
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A.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
The Journal of the American Chemical Society is a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research articles across all fields of chemistry.
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B.
Journal of Chemical Physics
The Journal of Chemical Physics is a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on research in chemical physics and related fields such as physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics.
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C.
ACS Catalysis
ACS Catalysis is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on cutting-edge research in catalysis across chemistry, biology, and engineering.
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D.
Nano Letters
Nano Letters is a high-impact, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society that focuses on cutting-edge research in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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E.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on research at the interface of materials science, chemistry, and engineering, particularly in applied and functional materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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chemist ⓘ family name ⓘ person ⓘ physicist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Faraday Medal
NERFINISHED
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Franklin Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry NERFINISHED ⓘ Perkin Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Willard Gibbs Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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University of Göttingen ⓘ |
| employer |
General Electric
NERFINISHED
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General Electric Research Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Langmuir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
colloid chemistry
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physical chemistry ⓘ plasma physics ⓘ surface chemistry ⓘ vacuum science ⓘ |
| givenName | Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | PhD in chemistry ⓘ |
| hasEponym |
Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics
NERFINISHED
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Langmuir (journal) NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir (unit) NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir Award (American Physical Society) NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir College at Rice University NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir circulation NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir crater NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir monolayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir-Blodgett film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of modern surface chemistry
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development of plasma diagnostics ⓘ development of vacuum tube technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Langmuir adsorption isotherm
NERFINISHED
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Langmuir probe NERFINISHED ⓘ Langmuir waves NERFINISHED ⓘ pioneering work in surface chemistry ⓘ research on atomic hydrogen welding ⓘ work on gas-filled incandescent lamps ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Chemical Society
NERFINISHED
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National Academy of Sciences (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Irving Langmuir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | “The Constitution and Fundamental Properties of Solids and Liquids” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Langmuir Description of subject: Langmuir is a surname most notably associated with Irving Langmuir, the American chemist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work in surface chemistry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.