Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics
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The Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics is a prestigious endowed chair in theoretical physics at Stanford University, notably held by physicist Leonard Susskind.
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| Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8325772 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics Context triple: [Leonard Susskind, positionHeld, Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics]
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Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics
The Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics is a distinguished endowed chair in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, held by string theorist John H. Schwarz.
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Langworthy Professor of Physics
The Langworthy Professor of Physics is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Manchester historically associated with leading physicists.
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Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT
The Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT is a prestigious endowed chair in the MIT Department of Physics, named in honor of theoretical physicist Herman Feshbach and held by leading researchers in the field.
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Sidney J. Weinberg Professor
The Sidney J. Weinberg Professor is an endowed academic chair at Yale University held by computer scientist Abraham Silberschatz.
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Linde Professor of Physics, Caltech
The Linde Professor of Physics at Caltech is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in the physics department at the California Institute of Technology, held by leading researchers in the field.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics Target entity description: The Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics is a prestigious endowed chair in theoretical physics at Stanford University, notably held by physicist Leonard Susskind.
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A.
Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics
The Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics is a distinguished endowed chair in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, held by string theorist John H. Schwarz.
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B.
Langworthy Professor of Physics
The Langworthy Professor of Physics is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Manchester historically associated with leading physicists.
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C.
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT
The Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT is a prestigious endowed chair in the MIT Department of Physics, named in honor of theoretical physicist Herman Feshbach and held by leading researchers in the field.
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Sidney J. Weinberg Professor
The Sidney J. Weinberg Professor is an endowed academic chair at Yale University held by computer scientist Abraham Silberschatz.
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Linde Professor of Physics, Caltech
The Linde Professor of Physics at Caltech is a prestigious endowed faculty chair in the physics department at the California Institute of Technology, held by leading researchers in the field.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic position
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endowed chair ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | physics ⓘ |
| academicFocus |
fundamental physics
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high-energy physics ⓘ quantum theory ⓘ |
| academicRank | professorship ⓘ |
| affiliation | Stanford University ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field | theoretical physics ⓘ |
| fundingType | endowment ⓘ |
| holder | Leonard Susskind ⓘ |
| inception | 20th century (approximate) ⓘ |
| institutionType | research university ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Stanford University ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Felix Bloch ⓘ |
| notableHolder | Leonard Susskind ⓘ |
| partOf | Stanford University Department of Physics ⓘ |
| positionType | tenured faculty position ⓘ |
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: Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics Description of subject: The Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics is a prestigious endowed chair in theoretical physics at Stanford University, notably held by physicist Leonard Susskind.
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