Osheroff
E701260
Osheroff is the surname of Douglas D. Osheroff, an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on superfluidity in helium-3.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Osheroff canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7887554 — 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: Osheroff Context triple: [Douglas D. Osheroff, familyName, Osheroff]
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A.
Osthoff
Osthoff is a German-language surname borne by various individuals, including those of notable public and historical prominence.
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B.
Slichter
Slichter is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Charles P. Slichter, renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
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C.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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D.
Gerlach
Gerlach is a small, remote community in northwestern Nevada best known as the gateway to the Black Rock Desert and the annual Burning Man festival.
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E.
Gerlach
Gerlach is the highest peak in the High Tatras and in Slovakia, renowned as the tallest summit in the entire Carpathian mountain range.
- 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: Osheroff Target entity description: Osheroff is the surname of Douglas D. Osheroff, an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on superfluidity in helium-3.
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A.
Osthoff
Osthoff is a German-language surname borne by various individuals, including those of notable public and historical prominence.
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B.
Slichter
Slichter is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Charles P. Slichter, renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
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C.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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D.
Gerlach
Gerlach is a small, remote community in northwestern Nevada best known as the gateway to the Black Rock Desert and the annual Burning Man festival.
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E.
Gerlach
Gerlach is the highest peak in the High Tatras and in Slovakia, renowned as the tallest summit in the entire Carpathian mountain range.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California Institute of Technology
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Cornell University ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Osheroff ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
condensed matter physics
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low-temperature physics ⓘ |
| givenName | Douglas ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Douglas D. Osheroff ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Osheroff ⓘ |
| knownFor | work on superfluidity in helium-3 ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Physical Society
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 ⓘ |
| occupation | physicist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at Stanford University ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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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: Osheroff Description of subject: Osheroff is the surname of Douglas D. Osheroff, an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on superfluidity in helium-3.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.