David M. Lee
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David M. Lee is an American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering work on superfluidity in helium-3.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David M. Lee canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7887573 — 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: David M. Lee Context triple: [Douglas D. Osheroff, coRecipientWith, David M. Lee]
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A.
Mark C. Lee
Mark C. Lee is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel known for flying on multiple Space Shuttle missions and performing spacewalks to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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B.
Malcolm D. Lee
Malcolm D. Lee is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing popular comedies such as "The Best Man" and "Girls Trip."
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C.
Stephen D. Lee
Stephen D. Lee was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a prominent postwar civic leader and the first president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Mississippi State University).
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D.
David A. Lyle
David A. Lyle was a U.S. Army officer and inventor best known for developing the Lyle gun, a line-throwing device used in maritime rescue operations.
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E.
Don L. Lee
Don L. Lee, better known as Haki R. Madhubuti, is an influential African American poet, essayist, and educator associated with the Black Arts Movement.
- 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: David M. Lee Target entity description: David M. Lee is an American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering work on superfluidity in helium-3.
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A.
Mark C. Lee
Mark C. Lee is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel known for flying on multiple Space Shuttle missions and performing spacewalks to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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B.
Malcolm D. Lee
Malcolm D. Lee is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing popular comedies such as "The Best Man" and "Girls Trip."
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C.
Stephen D. Lee
Stephen D. Lee was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who later became a prominent postwar civic leader and the first president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Mississippi State University).
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D.
David A. Lyle
David A. Lyle was a U.S. Army officer and inventor best known for developing the Lyle gun, a line-throwing device used in maritime rescue operations.
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E.
Don L. Lee
Don L. Lee, better known as Haki R. Madhubuti, is an influential African American poet, essayist, and educator associated with the Black Arts Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American physicist
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Nobel laureate ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physics
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Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of Connecticut ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Cornell University ⓘ |
| familyName | Lee ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
condensed matter physics
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low-temperature physics ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| knownFor |
discovery of superfluid phases of helium-3
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superfluidity in helium-3 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeDiscipline | Physics ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeFor | discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 ⓘ |
| notableWork | experiments on helium-3 at ultra-low temperatures ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesNobelPrizeWith |
Douglas D. Osheroff
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Robert C. Richardson ⓘ |
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: David M. Lee Description of subject: David M. Lee is an American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering work on superfluidity in helium-3.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.