Queloz
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Queloz is the surname of Didier Queloz, the Swiss astronomer and Nobel laureate known for co-discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Queloz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8517332 — 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: Queloz Context triple: [Didier Queloz, familyName, Queloz]
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A.
51 Pegasi b
51 Pegasi b is the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star, marking a breakthrough in the study of planetary systems beyond our own.
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B.
Udir
Udir is the commonly used abbreviation for the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, the national authority responsible for implementing and overseeing Norway’s education policy.
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Gliese 144
Gliese 144 is a nearby main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its inclusion in catalogs of stars close to the Sun.
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HIP 61084
HIP 61084 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Epsilon Crucis, a bright giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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Gliese 581c
Gliese 581c is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581 in the constellation Libra, once considered a potentially habitable “super-Earth” due to its size and location in its star’s habitable zone.
- 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: Queloz Target entity description: Queloz is the surname of Didier Queloz, the Swiss astronomer and Nobel laureate known for co-discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
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A.
51 Pegasi b
51 Pegasi b is the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star, marking a breakthrough in the study of planetary systems beyond our own.
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B.
Udir
Udir is the commonly used abbreviation for the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, the national authority responsible for implementing and overseeing Norway’s education policy.
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C.
Gliese 144
Gliese 144 is a nearby main-sequence star in the constellation Eridanus, notable for its inclusion in catalogs of stars close to the Sun.
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D.
HIP 61084
HIP 61084 is the Hipparcos catalog designation for Epsilon Crucis, a bright giant star in the Southern Cross constellation.
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E.
Gliese 581c
Gliese 581c is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581 in the constellation Libra, once considered a potentially habitable “super-Earth” due to its size and location in its star’s habitable zone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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astrophysicist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physics
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaw Prize in Astronomy NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolf Prize in Physics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Swiss ⓘ |
| coDiscovered | 51 Pegasi b NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDiscoveredWith | Michel Mayor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
University of Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Queloz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astronomy
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astrophysics ⓘ exoplanet research ⓘ |
| givenName | Didier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Michel Mayor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Didier Queloz (French) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
extrasolar planets
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planetary systems ⓘ radial velocity method ⓘ |
| knownFor | 51 Pegasi b discovery ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Royal Society
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Swiss Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first confirmed detection of an exoplanet around a main-sequence Sun-like star ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star ⓘ |
| notableWork | pioneering exoplanet detection methods ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronomer
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university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Cambridge
NERFINISHED
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Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor of astrophysics
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professor of physics ⓘ |
| surname | Queloz 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: Queloz Description of subject: Queloz is the surname of Didier Queloz, the Swiss astronomer and Nobel laureate known for co-discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.