Toshihide Maskawa
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Toshihide Maskawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-formulating the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) matrix, which explains CP violation in the Standard Model of particle physics.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Toshihide Maskawa canonical | 18 |
| 益川敏英 | 2 |
| 益川 敏英 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T262323 — 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: Toshihide Maskawa Context triple: [University of Tokyo, hasNotableFaculty, Toshihide Maskawa]
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Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate best known for proposing the meson theory of nuclear forces.
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Masatoshi Koshiba
Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in neutrino astronomy and the development of underground neutrino detectors.
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Hitoshi Murayama
Hitoshi Murayama is a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work in particle physics and cosmology and for holding leading academic positions in both Japan and the United States.
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Sheldon Glashow
Sheldon Glashow is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the electroweak theory that unifies electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
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E.
Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia is an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pivotal role in the experimental discovery of the W and Z bosons at CERN.
- 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: Toshihide Maskawa Target entity description: Toshihide Maskawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-formulating the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) matrix, which explains CP violation in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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A.
Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate best known for proposing the meson theory of nuclear forces.
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B.
Masatoshi Koshiba
Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in neutrino astronomy and the development of underground neutrino detectors.
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C.
Hitoshi Murayama
Hitoshi Murayama is a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work in particle physics and cosmology and for holding leading academic positions in both Japan and the United States.
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D.
Sheldon Glashow
Sheldon Glashow is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the electroweak theory that unifies electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
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E.
Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia is an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pivotal role in the experimental discovery of the W and Z bosons at CERN.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Toshihide Maskawa Description of subject: Toshihide Maskawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-formulating the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) matrix, which explains CP violation in the Standard Model of particle physics.
Referenced by (21)
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