eka-boron
E368729
Eka-boron is the provisional name Mendeleev used for the then-undiscovered element later identified as scandium, predicted by its position beneath boron in his periodic table.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| eka-boron canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3557731 — 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: eka-boron Context triple: [Mendeleev periodic table, predicted, eka-boron]
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A.
Boric
Boric is the surname of Gabriel Boric, the Chilean politician who became one of the world’s youngest heads of state when he was elected President of Chile.
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B.
EKBO
EKBO is the German abbreviation for the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional Protestant church body within the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
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C.
EKKA
EKKA was a Greek World War II resistance organization that played a significant role in the anti-Axis struggle and post-liberation political developments.
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D.
Ebabbar
Ebabbar was the principal sun-god temple of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Sippar, dedicated to the deity Shamash.
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E.
Awaba
Awaba is an Aboriginal name historically used for Lake Macquarie, a large coastal lake in New South Wales, Australia.
- 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: eka-boron Target entity description: Eka-boron is the provisional name Mendeleev used for the then-undiscovered element later identified as scandium, predicted by its position beneath boron in his periodic table.
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A.
Boric
Boric is the surname of Gabriel Boric, the Chilean politician who became one of the world’s youngest heads of state when he was elected President of Chile.
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B.
EKBO
EKBO is the German abbreviation for the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional Protestant church body within the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
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C.
EKKA
EKKA was a Greek World War II resistance organization that played a significant role in the anti-Axis struggle and post-liberation political developments.
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D.
Ebabbar
Ebabbar was the principal sun-god temple of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Sippar, dedicated to the deity Shamash.
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E.
Awaba
Awaba is an Aboriginal name historically used for Lake Macquarie, a large coastal lake in New South Wales, Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: eka-boron Description of subject: Eka-boron is the provisional name Mendeleev used for the then-undiscovered element later identified as scandium, predicted by its position beneath boron in his periodic table.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.