deuteron
E3686
A deuteron is the positively charged nucleus of deuterium, consisting of one proton and one neutron bound together.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| deuteron canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18997 — 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: deuteron Context triple: [Oppenheimer–Phillips process, involvesProjectile, deuteron]
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Oppenheimer–Phillips process
The Oppenheimer–Phillips process is a nuclear reaction mechanism in which a deuteron interacting with a target nucleus effectively transfers its neutron while the proton is repelled, enabling certain reactions to occur at lower energies than would otherwise be required.
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W boson
The W boson is a massive elementary particle that mediates the weak nuclear force and is responsible for processes like beta decay in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Doug
Doug is a common English masculine given name, typically used as a short form of Douglas.
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NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
- 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: deuteron Target entity description: A deuteron is the positively charged nucleus of deuterium, consisting of one proton and one neutron bound together.
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A.
Oppenheimer–Phillips process
The Oppenheimer–Phillips process is a nuclear reaction mechanism in which a deuteron interacting with a target nucleus effectively transfers its neutron while the proton is repelled, enabling certain reactions to occur at lower energies than would otherwise be required.
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B.
W boson
The W boson is a massive elementary particle that mediates the weak nuclear force and is responsible for processes like beta decay in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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C.
Doug
Doug is a common English masculine given name, typically used as a short form of Douglas.
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D.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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E.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
baryonic nucleus
ⓘ
bound state ⓘ hadron ⓘ nucleus ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSymbol | ^2H nucleus ⓘ |
| hasAtomicNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| hasBaryonNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| hasBindingEnergy | ≈2.224 MeV ⓘ |
| hasChargeConjugation | not defined (non-self-conjugate) ⓘ |
| hasChargeRadius | ≈2.1 fm (order of magnitude) ⓘ |
| hasConstituent |
neutron
ⓘ
proton ⓘ |
| hasElectricCharge | +1 e ⓘ |
| hasExcitedBoundStates | false ⓘ |
| hasGroundState | 3S1–3D1 mixed state ⓘ |
| hasIsospin | 0 ⓘ |
| hasLifetime | >10^28 years (effectively stable) ⓘ |
| hasMagneticMoment | ≈0.857 μN ⓘ |
| hasMass |
≈1875.6129 MeV/c^2
ⓘ
≈2.013553212745 u ⓘ |
| hasMassNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| hasNeutronNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| hasParity | +1 ⓘ |
| hasProtonNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| hasQuadrupoleMoment | ≈0.2859 e·fm^2 ⓘ |
| hasRestEnergy | ≈1.875 GeV ⓘ |
| hasSpin | 1 ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | d ⓘ |
| hasTotalAngularMomentumJ | 1 ⓘ |
| hasTotalQuarkContent | 6 up quarks and 6 down quarks (valence) ⓘ |
| isBoson | true ⓘ |
| isCompositeParticle | true ⓘ |
| isLightestBoundStateOf | two nucleons ⓘ |
| isNucleusOf | deuterium ⓘ |
| isNucleusOfIsotope | hydrogen-2 ⓘ |
| isOnlyBoundStateOf | proton and neutron ⓘ |
| isProducedIn |
big bang nucleosynthesis
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stellar nucleosynthesis ⓘ |
| isStable | true ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
few-body physics
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nuclear physics ⓘ quantum chromodynamics (effective descriptions) ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | projectile in accelerator experiments ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
neutron production
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nuclear fusion reactions ⓘ nuclear structure studies ⓘ scattering experiments ⓘ |
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: deuteron Description of subject: A deuteron is the positively charged nucleus of deuterium, consisting of one proton and one neutron bound together.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.