Roger Revelle
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Roger Revelle was an American oceanographer and climate scientist whose pioneering research on the carbon cycle helped establish the modern understanding of global warming.
All labels observed (1)
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| Roger Revelle canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6504539 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roger Revelle Context triple: [Revelle College, namedAfter, Roger Revelle]
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A.
Maurice Ewing
Maurice Ewing was a pioneering American geophysicist and oceanographer whose work in marine seismology and underwater acoustics fundamentally advanced the understanding of the Earth's crust and ocean basins.
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B.
Carl-Gustaf Rossby
Carl-Gustaf Rossby was a pioneering Swedish-American meteorologist best known for discovering large-scale atmospheric waves (Rossby waves) that revolutionized modern weather forecasting and dynamic meteorology.
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C.
Alfred C. Redfield
Alfred C. Redfield was an American oceanographer and biologist best known for formulating the Redfield ratio, which describes the consistent atomic ratio of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in marine organic matter and seawater.
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D.
Harry Hammond Hess
Harry Hammond Hess was an American geologist and Navy officer whose work on seafloor spreading helped establish the theory of plate tectonics.
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E.
Bruce C. Heezen
Bruce C. Heezen was an American geologist and oceanographer renowned for his pioneering work in seafloor mapping and the discovery of extensive mid-ocean ridge systems.
- 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: Roger Revelle Target entity description: Roger Revelle was an American oceanographer and climate scientist whose pioneering research on the carbon cycle helped establish the modern understanding of global warming.
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A.
Maurice Ewing
Maurice Ewing was a pioneering American geophysicist and oceanographer whose work in marine seismology and underwater acoustics fundamentally advanced the understanding of the Earth's crust and ocean basins.
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B.
Carl-Gustaf Rossby
Carl-Gustaf Rossby was a pioneering Swedish-American meteorologist best known for discovering large-scale atmospheric waves (Rossby waves) that revolutionized modern weather forecasting and dynamic meteorology.
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C.
Alfred C. Redfield
Alfred C. Redfield was an American oceanographer and biologist best known for formulating the Redfield ratio, which describes the consistent atomic ratio of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in marine organic matter and seawater.
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D.
Harry Hammond Hess
Harry Hammond Hess was an American geologist and Navy officer whose work on seafloor spreading helped establish the theory of plate tectonics.
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E.
Bruce C. Heezen
Bruce C. Heezen was an American geologist and oceanographer renowned for his pioneering work in seafloor mapping and the discovery of extensive mid-ocean ridge systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
climate scientist
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human ⓘ oceanographer ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in oceanography ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
climate policy
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environmental science education ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Medal of Science
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V. M. Goldschmidt Award ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Hans Suess ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1909-03-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-07-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Pomona College
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard University
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography ⓘ University of California, San Diego ⓘ |
| familyName | Revelle ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
carbon cycle research
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climatology ⓘ geophysics ⓘ oceanography ⓘ |
| givenName | Roger ⓘ |
| hasHonorificNamesake |
R/V Roger Revelle (research vessel)
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Revelle College, University of California, San Diego ⓘ
linked to:
Revelle College
Revelle Medal (American Geophysical Union) ⓘ |
| influenced | Charles David Keeling ⓘ |
| knownFor |
helping establish modern understanding of global warming
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highlighting limits of ocean CO2 absorption ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Academy of Sciences (United States)
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linked to:
National Academy of Sciences
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| notableFor |
early research on anthropogenic global warming
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pioneering research on the carbon cycle ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Charles David Keeling ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Paper with Hans Suess on atmospheric carbon dioxide increase
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Revelle factor concept in ocean chemistry ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Diego, California, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Professor of science and public policy at Harvard University ⓘ Science advisor to the U.S. government ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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linked to:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
La Jolla, California, United States ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Roger Revelle Description of subject: Roger Revelle was an American oceanographer and climate scientist whose pioneering research on the carbon cycle helped establish the modern understanding of global warming.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.