gluon
E163072
A gluon is the elementary gauge boson in quantum chromodynamics that mediates the strong nuclear force between quarks and carries color charge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| gluon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1422205 — 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: gluon Context triple: [Higgs mechanism, typicallyDoesNotGiveMassTo, gluon]
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GLC
GLC is a Chicago-based rapper and longtime Kanye West collaborator known for his appearances on early Kanye albums and his affiliation with the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
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GLC
GLC is the National Rail station code for Glasgow Central, a major railway terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
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GLC
The GLC is a compact luxury crossover SUV produced by Mercedes-Benz, positioned as one of the brand’s core premium utility vehicles.
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glo
glo is a heated tobacco product brand developed by British American Tobacco as an alternative to traditional cigarettes.
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E.
Gliz
Gliz is one of the official mascots of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, depicted as a stylized anthropomorphic ice cube symbolizing winter sports and modernity.
- 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: gluon Target entity description: A gluon is the elementary gauge boson in quantum chromodynamics that mediates the strong nuclear force between quarks and carries color charge.
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A.
GLC
GLC is a Chicago-based rapper and longtime Kanye West collaborator known for his appearances on early Kanye albums and his affiliation with the G.O.O.D. Music collective.
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B.
GLC
The GLC is a compact luxury crossover SUV produced by Mercedes-Benz, positioned as one of the brand’s core premium utility vehicles.
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C.
GLC
GLC is the National Rail station code for Glasgow Central, a major railway terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
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D.
glo
glo is a heated tobacco product brand developed by British American Tobacco as an alternative to traditional cigarettes.
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E.
Gliz
Gliz is one of the official mascots of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, depicted as a stylized anthropomorphic ice cube symbolizing winter sports and modernity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
elementary particle
ⓘ
force carrier ⓘ gauge boson ⓘ vector boson ⓘ |
| appearsAsFreeParticle | false ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | SU(3) color ⓘ |
| contributesTo | hadron binding energy ⓘ |
| couplesTo |
gluon
ⓘ
quark ⓘ |
| fieldTheory | quantum chromodynamics ⓘ |
| hasAntiparticle | self (gluon is its own antiparticle) ⓘ |
| hasBaryonNumber | 0 ⓘ |
| hasCharge | color charge ⓘ |
| hasColorStates | eight gluon color combinations ⓘ |
| hasElectricCharge | 0 ⓘ |
| hasGaugeGroup | SU(3) ⓘ |
| hasIsospin | 0 ⓘ |
| hasLeptonNumber | 0 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfTypes | 8 ⓘ |
| hasRestMass | 0 ⓘ |
| hasSpin | 1 ⓘ |
| hasSpinParity | 1- ⓘ |
| hasSpinType | integer spin ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | g ⓘ |
| hasVertex |
four-gluon vertex
ⓘ
three-gluon vertex ⓘ |
| isBoson | true ⓘ |
| isCarrierOf |
color force between gluons
ⓘ
color force between quarks ⓘ |
| isConfined | true ⓘ |
| isContainedIn |
hadrons
ⓘ
neutrons ⓘ protons ⓘ |
| isGaugeBosonOf | strong interaction ⓘ |
| isMassless | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Standard Model ⓘ |
| isQuantumOf | gluon field ⓘ |
| mediatesInteraction |
strong interaction
ⓘ
strong nuclear force ⓘ |
| obeys |
Yang–Mills equations
ⓘ
linked to:
Yang–Mills theory
|
| participatesIn |
asymptotic freedom
ⓘ
color confinement ⓘ |
| selfInteracts | true ⓘ |
| statistics | Bose–Einstein statistics ⓘ |
| wasConfirmedBy | three-jet events in electron–positron collisions ⓘ |
| wasDiscoveredAt |
PETRA collider
ⓘ
linked to:
PETRA (collider)
|
| wasDiscoveredInYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| wasTheorizedBy |
Harald Fritzsch
ⓘ
Heinrich Leutwyler ⓘ Murray Gell-Mann ⓘ |
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: gluon Description of subject: A gluon is the elementary gauge boson in quantum chromodynamics that mediates the strong nuclear force between quarks and carries color charge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.