Johann Samuel König
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Johann Samuel König was an 18th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his work in mechanics and for his involvement in a famous dispute with Euler over the principle of least action.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johann Samuel König canonical | 2 |
| Johann Krönig | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4228695 — 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: Johann Samuel König Context triple: [König, hasNotableBearer, Johann Samuel König]
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A.
Johann Friedrich Weskott
Johann Friedrich Weskott was a 19th-century German businessman and co-founder of the pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer.
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B.
Karl Georg Hornschuch
Karl Georg Hornschuch was a 19th-century German botanist and bryologist known for his significant contributions to the study and classification of mosses.
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C.
Christoph von Graffenried
Christoph von Graffenried was a Swiss nobleman and colonial entrepreneur best known for leading and founding the early 18th-century settlement of New Bern in what is now North Carolina.
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D.
Johann Georg Hiedler
Johann Georg Hiedler was a 19th-century Austrian miller who is widely considered, though not definitively proven, to be the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler.
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E.
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger was a high-ranking German civil servant in the Reich Chancellery who participated in the planning of the Holocaust as an attendee of the Wannsee Conference.
- 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: Johann Samuel König Target entity description: Johann Samuel König was an 18th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his work in mechanics and for his involvement in a famous dispute with Euler over the principle of least action.
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A.
Johann Friedrich Weskott
Johann Friedrich Weskott was a 19th-century German businessman and co-founder of the pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer.
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B.
Karl Georg Hornschuch
Karl Georg Hornschuch was a 19th-century German botanist and bryologist known for his significant contributions to the study and classification of mosses.
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C.
Christoph von Graffenried
Christoph von Graffenried was a Swiss nobleman and colonial entrepreneur best known for leading and founding the early 18th-century settlement of New Bern in what is now North Carolina.
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D.
Johann Georg Hiedler
Johann Georg Hiedler was a 19th-century Austrian miller who is widely considered, though not definitively proven, to be the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler.
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E.
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger was a high-ranking German civil servant in the Reich Chancellery who participated in the planning of the Holocaust as an attendee of the Wannsee Conference.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century mathematician
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18th-century physicist ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity | European scientific community ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | König ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
calculus of variations
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mathematics ⓘ mechanics ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| givenName |
Johann
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Samuel ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDisputeWith | Leonhard Euler ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
German
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Latin ⓘ |
| movement | Enlightenment-era science ⓘ |
| name | Johann Samuel König ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
applications of the principle of least action
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contributions to analytical mechanics ⓘ dispute with Leonhard Euler over the principle of least action ⓘ |
| notableWork | work on the principle of least action ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
France
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Germany ⓘ |
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: Johann Samuel König Description of subject: Johann Samuel König was an 18th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his work in mechanics and for his involvement in a famous dispute with Euler over the principle of least action.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Johann Samuel König