Pauline Gell-Mann
E918644
Pauline Gell-Mann was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pauline Gell-Mann canonical | 2 |
| Gell-Mann | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11283923 — 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: Pauline Gell-Mann Context triple: [Murray Gell-Mann, mother, Pauline Gell-Mann]
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A.
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann was an American physicist best known for developing the quark model of subatomic particles and receiving the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Arthur Gell-Mann
Arthur Gell-Mann was the brother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann and a member of the Gell-Mann family, though he is not widely known in his own right.
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C.
Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell was an American theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to quantum field theory and particle physics, as well as for his influential work in national security and arms control policy.
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D.
Geoffrey Chew
Geoffrey Chew was an American theoretical physicist best known for developing the S-matrix theory and the bootstrap model in particle physics.
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E.
Gerald Guralnik
Gerald Guralnik was an American theoretical physicist best known as one of the co-discoverers of the Higgs mechanism that explains how particles acquire mass.
- 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: Pauline Gell-Mann Target entity description: Pauline Gell-Mann was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann.
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A.
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann was an American physicist best known for developing the quark model of subatomic particles and receiving the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Arthur Gell-Mann
Arthur Gell-Mann was the brother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann and a member of the Gell-Mann family, though he is not widely known in his own right.
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C.
Sidney Drell
Sidney Drell was an American theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to quantum field theory and particle physics, as well as for his influential work in national security and arms control policy.
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D.
Geoffrey Chew
Geoffrey Chew was an American theoretical physicist best known for developing the S-matrix theory and the bootstrap model in particle physics.
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E.
Gerald Guralnik
Gerald Guralnik was an American theoretical physicist best known as one of the co-discoverers of the Higgs mechanism that explains how particles acquire mass.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Murray Gell-Mann ⓘ |
| mother | Pauline Gell-Mann ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Murray Gell-Mann ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Pauline Gell-Mann Description of subject: Pauline Gell-Mann was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gell-Mann family
subject linked to:
Gell-Mann family
linked to: Pauline Gell-Mann
subject linked to:
Pauline Gell-Mann