Celsius
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Celsius is a temperature scale used worldwide in science and daily life, defined by 0° as the freezing point and 100° as the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Celsius canonical | 3 |
| Celsius (unit) | 1 |
| Celsius temperature scale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7650650 — 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: Celsius Context triple: [Anders Celsius, familyName, Celsius]
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A.
Graus
Graus is a historic town in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain, known for its traditional architecture and cultural festivals.
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B.
98°
98° is the self-titled debut studio album by American boy band 98 Degrees, featuring their early R&B-influenced pop sound that helped launch their mainstream success in the late 1990s.
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C.
Frías
Frías is a Spanish-language surname commonly found in Spain and Latin America.
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Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit is a temperature scale commonly used in the United States and a few other countries, where water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees under standard conditions.
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E.
Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit is a steel roller coaster at Hersheypark in Pennsylvania, known for its beyond-vertical drop and multiple inversions, designed and manufactured by Intamin.
- 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: Celsius Target entity description: Celsius is a temperature scale used worldwide in science and daily life, defined by 0° as the freezing point and 100° as the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure.
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A.
Rankine
Rankine is a surname most notably associated with Claudia Rankine, the acclaimed poet, playwright, and essayist known for her explorations of race and identity.
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B.
kelvin
Kelvin is the SI base unit of thermodynamic temperature, used to measure absolute temperature from absolute zero upward.
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C.
Graus
Graus is a historic town in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain, known for its traditional architecture and cultural festivals.
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D.
98°
98° is the self-titled debut studio album by American boy band 98 Degrees, featuring their early R&B-influenced pop sound that helped launch their mainstream success in the late 1990s.
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E.
Frías
Frías is a Spanish-language surname commonly found in Spain and Latin America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
temperature scale
ⓘ
unit of measurement ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | International System of Units NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Celsius scale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
degree Celsius ⓘ |
| baseUnitInSI | kelvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boilingPointOfWater | 100 °C ⓘ |
| boilingPointOfWaterInKelvin | 373.15 K ⓘ |
| category | temperature unit ⓘ |
| conversionFromFahrenheit | °C = (5/9)·(°F − 32) ⓘ |
| conversionToFahrenheit | °F = (9/5)·°C + 32 ⓘ |
| conversionToKelvin | K = °C + 273.15 ⓘ |
| currentDefinitionBasedOn | kelvin definition via Boltzmann constant ⓘ |
| currentScaleOrientation | 0 = freezing, 100 = boiling ⓘ |
| field |
chemistry
ⓘ
meteorology ⓘ physics ⓘ thermodynamics ⓘ |
| freezingPointOfWater | 0 °C ⓘ |
| freezingPointOfWaterInKelvin | 273.15 K ⓘ |
| hasDimension | thermodynamic temperature ⓘ |
| historicalDefinitionBasedOn | properties of water ⓘ |
| hundredPointDefinedBy | boiling point of water at 1 atm ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Anders Celsius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Anders Celsius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notOfficiallyUsedIn |
Belize for most everyday purposes
ⓘ
Cayman Islands for most everyday purposes ⓘ Palau for most everyday purposes ⓘ United States for most everyday purposes ⓘ |
| offsetFromKelvin | 273.15 ⓘ |
| originalScaleOrientation | 0 = boiling, 100 = freezing ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Fahrenheit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kelvin NERFINISHED ⓘ Rankine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scaleType | interval scale ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
BIPM
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ISO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusInSI | derived unit ⓘ |
| symbol | °C ⓘ |
| usedFor | measuring temperature ⓘ |
| usedIn |
engineering
ⓘ
everyday life ⓘ medicine ⓘ science ⓘ weather reports ⓘ |
| usedOfficiallyIn | most countries worldwide ⓘ |
| zeroPointDefinedBy | freezing point of water at 1 atm ⓘ |
| zeroPointRelativeToKelvin | 0 °C = 273.15 K ⓘ |
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: Celsius Description of subject: Celsius is a temperature scale used worldwide in science and daily life, defined by 0° as the freezing point and 100° as the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Celsius temperature scale
this entity surface form:
Celsius (unit)