C. N. Yang
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C. N. Yang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his work on gauge theory and the Yang–Mills theory, which profoundly shaped modern particle physics.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chen-Ning Yang | 13 |
| C. N. Yang canonical | 5 |
| Chen Ning Yang | 5 |
| Yang Zhenning | 3 |
| Chen-Ning Franklin Yang | 2 |
| C. P. Yang | 1 |
| Chen-Ning | 1 |
| Yang Chen-Ning | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T387127 — 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: C. N. Yang Context triple: [Institute for Advanced Study, notableScholar, C. N. Yang]
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A.
Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Julian Schwinger
Julian Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory.
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C.
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann was an American physicist best known for developing the quark model of subatomic particles and receiving the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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D.
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate best known for proposing the meson theory of nuclear forces.
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E.
Sheldon Glashow
Sheldon Glashow is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the electroweak theory that unifies electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
- 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: C. N. Yang Target entity description: C. N. Yang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his work on gauge theory and the Yang–Mills theory, which profoundly shaped modern particle physics.
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A.
Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Julian Schwinger
Julian Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory.
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C.
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann was an American physicist best known for developing the quark model of subatomic particles and receiving the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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D.
Arthur Gell-Mann
Arthur Gell-Mann was the brother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann and a member of the Gell-Mann family, though he is not widely known in his own right.
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E.
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate best known for proposing the meson theory of nuclear forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Physics
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Enrico Fermi ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Albert Einstein Medal
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Franklin Medal ⓘ
surface form:
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
Dirac Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Dirac Medal
Max Planck Medal ⓘ National Medal of Science ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| citizenship |
China
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-10-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
National Southwestern Associated University
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Tsinghua University ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer |
Brookhaven National Laboratory
ⓘ
Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ Stony Brook University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Yang ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
gauge theory
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particle physics ⓘ statistical mechanics ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| givenName |
C. N. Yang
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Chen-Ning
|
| hasHonoraryDegreeFrom |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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surface form:
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Princeton University ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ |
| influenced |
Standard Model
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Model of particle physics
modern gauge field theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Yang monopole
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Yang–Baxter equation ⓘ Yang–Lee theory ⓘ Yang–Mills theory ⓘ Yang–Yang equation ⓘ gauge theory ⓘ parity violation in weak interactions ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Chinese Academy of Sciences
ⓘ
Royal Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
US National Academy of Sciences
|
| name |
C. N. Yang
self-link
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C. N. Yang self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Chen-Ning Yang
C. N. Yang self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Yang Chen-Ning
|
| NobelPrizeField | Physics ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeMotivation | for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hefei ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University
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professor at Stony Brook University ⓘ |
| residence |
China
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United States of America ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeWith |
T. D. Lee
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surface form:
Tsung-Dao Lee
|
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: C. N. Yang Description of subject: C. N. Yang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his work on gauge theory and the Yang–Mills theory, which profoundly shaped modern particle physics.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Yang Chen-Ning
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Chen-Ning
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen Ning Yang
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Chen Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Franklin Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Yang Zhenning
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Chen-Ning Franklin Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen Ning Yang
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C. P. Yang
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Yang Zhenning
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Yang Zhenning
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang
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Chen-Ning Yang