Paul Hermann Müller
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Paul Hermann Müller was a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering the insecticidal properties of DDT, which revolutionized pest control and disease vector management in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Hermann Müller canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10479629 — 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: Paul Hermann Müller Context triple: [DDT, insecticidalPropertiesDiscoveredBy, Paul Hermann Müller]
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A.
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich was a pioneering German physician and scientist renowned for his work in immunology, hematology, and chemotherapy, and as a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
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Hermann Ehrlich
Hermann Ehrlich is a notable individual who shares the surname Ehrlich and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
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C.
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist best known for discovering the antibacterial effects of the sulfonamide drug Prontosil, work for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939.
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D.
Julius Ehrlich
Julius Ehrlich is a notable individual associated with the surname Ehrlich, recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
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E.
Tadeus Reichstein
Tadeus Reichstein was a Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the synthesis of vitamin C and adrenal cortex hormones.
- 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: Paul Hermann Müller Target entity description: Paul Hermann Müller was a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering the insecticidal properties of DDT, which revolutionized pest control and disease vector management in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich was a pioneering German physician and scientist renowned for his work in immunology, hematology, and chemotherapy, and as a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
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B.
Hermann Ehrlich
Hermann Ehrlich is a notable individual who shares the surname Ehrlich and is recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
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C.
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist best known for discovering the antibacterial effects of the sulfonamide drug Prontosil, work for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939.
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D.
Julius Ehrlich
Julius Ehrlich is a notable individual associated with the surname Ehrlich, recognized as a distinguished bearer of that name.
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E.
Tadeus Reichstein
Tadeus Reichstein was a Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the synthesis of vitamin C and adrenal cortex hormones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss person
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chemist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in chemistry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize
NERFINISHED
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Basel region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | unspecified natural causes ⓘ |
| causeOfFame | use of DDT in public health campaigns ⓘ |
| citizenship | Swiss ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1899-01-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-10-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | J. R. Geigy AG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Müller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
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insecticide research ⓘ pesticide development ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasNameInNativeLanguage | Paul Hermann Müller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
industrial chemist
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research scientist ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of modern insecticides
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vector-borne disease control strategies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
demonstrating insecticidal properties of DDT
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development of DDT as an insecticide ⓘ discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| memberOf | scientific community of Switzerland ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeCategory | Physiology or Medicine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
contribution to control of malaria vectors
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contribution to control of typhus vectors ⓘ revolutionizing pest control in the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| notableFor | application of synthetic organic chemistry to pest control ⓘ |
| notableWork | research on dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Olten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paul Hermann Müller Description of subject: Paul Hermann Müller was a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering the insecticidal properties of DDT, which revolutionized pest control and disease vector management in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.