Corrsin
E182611
Corrsin is a surname most notably associated with Stanley Corrsin, an influential American fluid dynamicist known for his work on turbulence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corrsin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1585950 — 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: Corrsin Context triple: [Stanley Corrsin, familyName, Corrsin]
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A.
Kiloran
Kiloran is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Colonsay, known for its scenic bay and sandy beach.
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B.
Loralai
Loralai is a town and district in northern Balochistan, Pakistan, known historically as a regional administrative and trade center.
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C.
Zeilin
Zeilin is a surname most notably associated with Jacob Zeilin, the first United States Marine Corps officer to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
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D.
Nicholaston
Nicholaston is a small coastal village on Wales’s scenic Gower Peninsula, known for its proximity to dunes, woodlands, and the popular Nicholaston Burrows and beach.
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E.
Yeola
Yeola is a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, known historically as the birthplace of the Indian freedom fighter Tatya Tope.
- 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: Corrsin Target entity description: Corrsin is a surname most notably associated with Stanley Corrsin, an influential American fluid dynamicist known for his work on turbulence.
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A.
Kiloran
Kiloran is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Colonsay, known for its scenic bay and sandy beach.
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B.
Loralai
Loralai is a town and district in northern Balochistan, Pakistan, known historically as a regional administrative and trade center.
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C.
Zeilin
Zeilin is a surname most notably associated with Jacob Zeilin, the first United States Marine Corps officer to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
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D.
Nicholaston
Nicholaston is a small coastal village on Wales’s scenic Gower Peninsula, known for its proximity to dunes, woodlands, and the popular Nicholaston Burrows and beach.
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E.
Yeola
Yeola is a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, known historically as the birthplace of the Indian freedom fighter Tatya Tope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
engineer ⓘ family name ⓘ fluid dynamicist ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fluid Dynamics Prize
ⓘ
Timoshenko Medal ⓘ
linked to:
ASME Timoshenko Medal
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| familyName | Corrsin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fluid dynamics
ⓘ
turbulence ⓘ |
| genre | scientific research ⓘ |
| givenName | Stanley ⓘ |
| influenced | research in turbulent mixing ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Physical Society
ⓘ
National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Stanley Corrsin ⓘ |
| notableFor | research on turbulence ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Parviz Moin ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| studies |
scalar transport in turbulence
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turbulent mixing ⓘ turbulent shear flows ⓘ |
| workLocation | Baltimore ⓘ |
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: Corrsin Description of subject: Corrsin is a surname most notably associated with Stanley Corrsin, an influential American fluid dynamicist known for his work on turbulence.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Corrsin