Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was an 18th-century French physicist and engineer best known for his pioneering work on electrostatics and the formulation of the inverse-square law of electric force.
All labels observed (1)
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| Charles-Augustin de Coulomb canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6832874 — 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: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Context triple: [Coulomb's law, namedAfter, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb]
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André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère was a pioneering French physicist and mathematician whose work in electromagnetism led to the naming of the unit of electric current, the ampere, in his honor.
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Jean-Jacques Ampère
Jean-Jacques Ampère was a 19th-century French philologist, historian, and literary critic known for his studies of Scandinavian and Germanic literature and his contributions to the history of French literature.
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C.
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish was an 18th-century British natural philosopher and chemist best known for discovering hydrogen and precisely measuring the density of the Earth.
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D.
Georg Ohm
Georg Ohm was a German physicist and mathematician best known for formulating Ohm’s law, which defines the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in electrical circuits.
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E.
Ewald von Kleist
Ewald von Kleist was a German field marshal who commanded panzer and army groups for the Wehrmacht during World War II, particularly on the Eastern Front.
- 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: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Target entity description: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was an 18th-century French physicist and engineer best known for his pioneering work on electrostatics and the formulation of the inverse-square law of electric force.
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A.
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère was a pioneering French physicist and mathematician whose work in electromagnetism led to the naming of the unit of electric current, the ampere, in his honor.
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B.
Jean-Jacques Ampère
Jean-Jacques Ampère was a 19th-century French philologist, historian, and literary critic known for his studies of Scandinavian and Germanic literature and his contributions to the history of French literature.
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C.
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish was an 18th-century British natural philosopher and chemist best known for discovering hydrogen and precisely measuring the density of the Earth.
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D.
Georg Ohm
Georg Ohm was a German physicist and mathematician best known for formulating Ohm’s law, which defines the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in electrical circuits.
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E.
Ewald von Kleist
Ewald von Kleist was a German field marshal who commanded panzer and army groups for the Wehrmacht during World War II, particularly on the Eastern Front.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Description of subject: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was an 18th-century French physicist and engineer best known for his pioneering work on electrostatics and the formulation of the inverse-square law of electric force.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.