Didier Queloz
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Didier Queloz is a Swiss astronomer and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, a breakthrough that launched the field of exoplanet research.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Didier Queloz canonical | 8 |
| Didier Queloz (French) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1767810 — 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: Didier Queloz Context triple: [Albert Einstein Medal, hasRecipient, Didier Queloz]
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Michel Mayor
Michel Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist renowned for co-discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, a breakthrough that revolutionized the field of planetary science.
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B.
Alexei Filippenko
Alexei Filippenko is an American astrophysicist renowned for his work on supernovae, active galaxies, and the accelerating expansion of the universe, as well as for his award-winning teaching and science communication.
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C.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown is an American astronomer known for his discoveries of distant trans-Neptunian objects that reshaped the definition of planets in our solar system.
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E.
David Alan Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the famous Stevenson family, responsible for many lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Didier Queloz Target entity description: Didier Queloz is a Swiss astronomer and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, a breakthrough that launched the field of exoplanet research.
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A.
Michel Mayor
Michel Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist renowned for co-discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, a breakthrough that revolutionized the field of planetary science.
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B.
Alexei Filippenko
Alexei Filippenko is an American astrophysicist renowned for his work on supernovae, active galaxies, and the accelerating expansion of the universe, as well as for his award-winning teaching and science communication.
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C.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown is an American astronomer known for his discoveries of distant trans-Neptunian objects that reshaped the definition of planets in our solar system.
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E.
David Alan Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the famous Stevenson family, responsible for many lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Didier Queloz Description of subject: Didier Queloz is a Swiss astronomer and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, a breakthrough that launched the field of exoplanet research.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.