T. D. Lee
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T. D. Lee is a Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on parity violation in weak interactions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tsung-Dao Lee | 9 |
| T. D. Lee canonical | 4 |
| Tsung-Dao | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1010209 — 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: T. D. Lee Context triple: [Brookhaven National Laboratory, employerOf, T. D. Lee]
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A.
C. N. Yang
C. N. Yang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his work on gauge theory and the Yang–Mills theory, which profoundly shaped modern particle physics.
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B.
Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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C.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering Chinese-American experimental physicist whose groundbreaking work on beta decay and the violation of parity conservation made her one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.
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D.
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate best known for proposing the meson theory of nuclear forces.
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E.
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
- 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: T. D. Lee Target entity description: T. D. Lee is a Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on parity violation in weak interactions.
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A.
C. N. Yang
C. N. Yang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his work on gauge theory and the Yang–Mills theory, which profoundly shaped modern particle physics.
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B.
Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu was a Japanese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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C.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering Chinese-American experimental physicist whose groundbreaking work on beta decay and the violation of parity conservation made her one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.
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D.
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate best known for proposing the meson theory of nuclear forces.
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E.
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese-American
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Nobel laureate ⓘ person ⓘ physicist ⓘ theoretical physicist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in physics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Albert Einstein Medal
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize ⓘ National Medal of Science ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| citizenship |
China
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United States of America ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Chen-Ning Yang
ⓘ
linked to:
C. N. Yang
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| countryOfBirth | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-11-24 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Enrico Fermi ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
National Southwestern Associated University
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University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | Columbia University ⓘ |
| familyName | Lee ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
particle physics
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quantum field theory ⓘ statistical mechanics ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ |
| founded |
China Center of Advanced Science and Technology
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Zhejiang University Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ
linked to:
Zhejiang University
|
| fullName |
Tsung-Dao Lee
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linked to:
T. D. Lee
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Tsung-Dao
ⓘ
linked to:
T. D. Lee
|
| influenced | development of modern particle physics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Lee model in quantum field theory
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Lee–Yang circle theorem ⓘ
linked to:
Yang–Lee theory
Lee–Yang theory ⓘ
linked to:
Yang–Lee theory
parity violation in weak interactions ⓘ work on CP violation ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Pontifical Academy of Sciences ⓘ United States National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Sciences
|
| NobelPrizeCategory | Physics ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeMotivation | for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Shanghai ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of physics at Columbia University ⓘ |
| proposed | nonconservation of parity in weak interactions ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeWith |
Chen-Ning Yang
ⓘ
linked to:
C. N. Yang
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| yearOfParityViolationProposal | 1956 ⓘ |
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