Richard A. Muller
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Richard A. Muller is an American physicist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley known for his work in astrophysics, climate science, and for founding the Berkeley Earth temperature analysis project.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard A. Muller canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8407897 — 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: Richard A. Muller Context triple: [Richard Muller, name, Richard A. Muller]
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A.
James R. Hansen
James R. Hansen is an American historian and author best known for writing the authorized biography of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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B.
Stephen J. Rivele
Stephen J. Rivele is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed biographical and historical films such as "Nixon" and "Ali."
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C.
Michael Lehmann
Michael Lehmann is an American film and television director best known for the dark comedy "Heathers" and various other Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Charles Klauder
Charles Klauder was an American architect best known for designing monumental collegiate Gothic and campus buildings in the early 20th century.
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E.
Stanley Corrsin
Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
- 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: Richard A. Muller Target entity description: Richard A. Muller is an American physicist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley known for his work in astrophysics, climate science, and for founding the Berkeley Earth temperature analysis project.
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A.
James R. Hansen
James R. Hansen is an American historian and author best known for writing the authorized biography of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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B.
Stephen J. Rivele
Stephen J. Rivele is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed biographical and historical films such as "Nixon" and "Ali."
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C.
Michael Lehmann
Michael Lehmann is an American film and television director best known for the dark comedy "Heathers" and various other Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Charles Klauder
Charles Klauder was an American architect best known for designing monumental collegiate Gothic and campus buildings in the early 20th century.
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E.
Stanley Corrsin
Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astrophysicist
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climate scientist ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicTitle | Professor Emeritus ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MacArthur Fellowship
NERFINISHED
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National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Instruments Foundation Founders Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Luis Walter Alvarez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Muller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astrophysics
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climate data analysis ⓘ climate science ⓘ cosmology ⓘ geophysics ⓘ particle physics ⓘ |
| founderOf | Berkeley Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | popular science ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasWrittenWork |
Energy for Future Presidents
NERFINISHED
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Nemesis: The Death Star NERFINISHED ⓘ Physics for Future Presidents NERFINISHED ⓘ The Instant Physicist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sins of Jesus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Berkeley Earth temperature analysis project
NERFINISHED
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public communication of physics and climate science ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Richard A. Muller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea | independent reanalysis of global temperature records ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Saul Perlmutter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project
NERFINISHED
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Physics for Future Presidents course at UC Berkeley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
physicist
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professor ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Berkeley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
climate change attribution
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cosmic background radiation ⓘ paleoclimate ⓘ supernovae ⓘ |
| teaches |
energy and climate
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physics ⓘ |
| workplace | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Richard A. Muller Description of subject: Richard A. Muller is an American physicist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley known for his work in astrophysics, climate science, and for founding the Berkeley Earth temperature analysis project.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Richard Muller