Higgs boson
E4406
The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model whose associated field gives mass to other fundamental particles, confirming a key mechanism of particle physics.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Higgs boson canonical | 33 |
| God Particle | 1 |
| God particle | 1 |
| Higgs boson (indirect searches) | 1 |
| Higgs field | 1 |
| Higgses | 1 |
| searches for Higgs boson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20811 — 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: Higgs boson Context triple: [CERN, discovered, Higgs boson]
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A.
Z boson
The Z boson is a neutral elementary particle that mediates the weak nuclear force and plays a central role in the electroweak theory of particle physics.
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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.
ATLAS
ATLAS is a major particle physics experiment and detector at the Large Hadron Collider that investigates fundamental particles and forces, including the Higgs boson.
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D.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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E.
MoEDAL
MoEDAL is a dedicated particle physics experiment at CERN designed to search for highly ionizing particles such as magnetic monopoles and other exotic, long-lived states beyond the Standard Model.
- 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: Higgs boson Target entity description: The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model whose associated field gives mass to other fundamental particles, confirming a key mechanism of particle physics.
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A.
Z boson
The Z boson is a neutral elementary particle that mediates the weak nuclear force and plays a central role in the electroweak theory of particle physics.
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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.
ATLAS
ATLAS is a major particle physics experiment and detector at the Large Hadron Collider that investigates fundamental particles and forces, including the Higgs boson.
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D.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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E.
MoEDAL
MoEDAL is a dedicated particle physics experiment at CERN designed to search for highly ionizing particles such as magnetic monopoles and other exotic, long-lived states beyond the Standard Model.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Standard Model particle
ⓘ
boson ⓘ elementary particle ⓘ scalar boson ⓘ |
| associatedWithField | Higgs field ⓘ |
| couplesTo | mass of fermions ⓘ |
| decaysTo |
W boson pair
ⓘ
Z boson pair ⓘ bottom quark–antiquark pair ⓘ photon pair ⓘ tau lepton pair ⓘ |
| discoveredAt | CERN ⓘ |
| discoveredInExperiment |
ATLAS
ⓘ
CMS ⓘ |
| discoveredUsing | Large Hadron Collider ⓘ |
| discoveryAnnouncedOn | 2012-07-04 ⓘ |
| discoveryEnergy | 7–8 TeV proton-proton collisions ⓘ |
| fieldType | scalar field excitation ⓘ |
| givesMassTo |
W boson
ⓘ
Z boson ⓘ |
| hasColorCharge | 0 ⓘ |
| hasCP | +1 ⓘ |
| hasElectricCharge | 0 ⓘ |
| hasLifetime | about 1.6×10^-22 s ⓘ |
| hasMass | about 125 GeV/c^2 ⓘ |
| hasParity | +1 ⓘ |
| hasRestMassEnergy | about 125 GeV ⓘ |
| hasSpin | 0 ⓘ |
| hasSymbol |
H
ⓘ
H^0 ⓘ |
| isComposite | false ⓘ |
| isFermion | false ⓘ |
| isGaugeBoson | false ⓘ |
| isQuantumOf |
Higgs field
ⓘ
linked to:
Higgs boson
|
| isSometimesCalled |
God particle
ⓘ
linked to:
Higgs boson
|
| mechanism | Higgs mechanism ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeRelated | 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for Englert and Higgs ⓘ |
| partOf |
Standard Model of particle physics
ⓘ
linked to:
Standard Model
|
| predictedBy |
Carl Hagen
ⓘ
François Englert ⓘ Gerald Guralnik ⓘ Peter Higgs ⓘ Robert Brout ⓘ Standard Model ⓘ Tom Kibble ⓘ |
| predictionYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| roleInPhysics |
contributes to masses of fermions via Yukawa couplings
ⓘ
gives mass to W and Z bosons via Higgs mechanism ⓘ |
| statistics | Bose–Einstein statistics ⓘ |
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: Higgs boson Description of subject: The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model whose associated field gives mass to other fundamental particles, confirming a key mechanism of particle physics.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Higgs boson
linked to: Higgs boson
subject linked to:
Z
subject linked to:
boson (particle type named after him)
subject linked to:
boson (particle type named after him)
linked to: Higgs boson
subject linked to:
W^-
linked to: Higgs boson
subject linked to:
Goldstone bosons
linked to: Higgs boson