Karl Planck
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Karl Planck was one of the children of the renowned German theoretical physicist Max Planck.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karl Planck canonical | 7 |
| Hermann Planck | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6859146 — 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: Karl Planck Context triple: [Max Planck, child, Karl Planck]
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A.
Max Planck
Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist regarded as the founder of quantum theory and a key figure in modern physics.
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Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist best known for formulating Wien's displacement law, which describes the shift of blackbody radiation spectra with temperature and contributed significantly to the development of quantum theory.
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Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst was a German physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for formulating the Nernst equation and contributing fundamentally to thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
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Friedrich Hasenöhrl
Friedrich Hasenöhrl was an Austrian physicist known for his early work on the relationship between radiation and mass, which anticipated aspects of Einstein’s mass–energy equivalence.
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E.
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
- 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: Karl Planck Target entity description: Karl Planck was one of the children of the renowned German theoretical physicist Max Planck.
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A.
Max Planck
Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist regarded as the founder of quantum theory and a key figure in modern physics.
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B.
Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist best known for formulating Wien's displacement law, which describes the shift of blackbody radiation spectra with temperature and contributed significantly to the development of quantum theory.
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C.
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst was a German physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for formulating the Nernst equation and contributing fundamentally to thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
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D.
Friedrich Hasenöhrl
Friedrich Hasenöhrl was an Austrian physicist known for his early work on the relationship between radiation and mass, which anticipated aspects of Einstein’s mass–energy equivalence.
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E.
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Karl Planck ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Germans ⓘ |
| familyName | Planck ⓘ |
| father | Max Planck ⓘ |
| givenName | Karl ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Planck family ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Max Planck ⓘ |
| offspring | Karl Planck ⓘ |
| parent | Max Planck ⓘ |
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: Karl Planck Description of subject: Karl Planck was one of the children of the renowned German theoretical physicist Max Planck.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.