Georges Lemaître
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Georges Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer, and physicist best known for proposing the expanding universe and what became known as the Big Bang theory.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Georges Lemaître canonical | 12 |
| George Lemaitre (English transliteration) | 1 |
| George Lemaître | 1 |
| Georges Lemaître (French) | 1 |
| Lemaître | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T65816 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Georges Lemaître Context triple: [FLRW cosmological models, namedAfter, Georges Lemaître]
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Walter Baade
Walter Baade was a German astronomer whose work on variable stars and the structure of the Milky Way led to a major revision of the cosmic distance scale and our understanding of the universe’s size and age.
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Richard C. Tolman
Richard C. Tolman was an American physicist and physical chemist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and cosmology, as well as his scientific advisory roles during World War II.
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Alexander Friedmann
Alexander Friedmann was a Russian physicist and mathematician who first formulated the expanding-universe solutions to Einstein’s field equations, laying the foundations of modern cosmology.
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Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer best known for providing the first exact solution to Einstein’s field equations, leading to the concept of the Schwarzschild radius and black holes.
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on stellar structure and evolution, particularly the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarfs.
- 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: Georges Lemaître Target entity description: Georges Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer, and physicist best known for proposing the expanding universe and what became known as the Big Bang theory.
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A.
Walter Baade
Walter Baade was a German astronomer whose work on variable stars and the structure of the Milky Way led to a major revision of the cosmic distance scale and our understanding of the universe’s size and age.
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B.
Richard C. Tolman
Richard C. Tolman was an American physicist and physical chemist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and cosmology, as well as his scientific advisory roles during World War II.
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C.
Alexander Friedmann
Alexander Friedmann was a Russian physicist and mathematician who first formulated the expanding-universe solutions to Einstein’s field equations, laying the foundations of modern cosmology.
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D.
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer best known for providing the first exact solution to Einstein’s field equations, leading to the concept of the Schwarzschild radius and black holes.
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E.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on stellar structure and evolution, particularly the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarfs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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Subject: Georges Lemaître Description of subject: Georges Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer, and physicist best known for proposing the expanding universe and what became known as the Big Bang theory.
Referenced by (16)
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A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae
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