John Sulston
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John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Sulston canonical | 8 |
| John E. Sulston | 4 |
| Sir John Sulston | 2 |
| Sir John Edward Sulston | 1 |
| Sulston | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T818716 — 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: John Sulston Context triple: [Pembroke College, Cambridge, notableAlumnus, John Sulston]
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Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
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J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
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C.
Mark Ptashne
Mark Ptashne is an American molecular biologist renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the discovery of how transcription factors control gene expression in phage and eukaryotic systems.
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D.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her pioneering work on the genetic control of embryonic development in Drosophila.
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E.
James Watson
James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
- 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: John Sulston Target entity description: John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
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A.
Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
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B.
J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
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C.
Mark Ptashne
Mark Ptashne is an American molecular biologist renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the discovery of how transcription factors control gene expression in phage and eukaryotic systems.
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D.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her pioneering work on the genetic control of embryonic development in Drosophila.
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E.
James Watson
James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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biologist ⓘ geneticist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences
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PhD in Chemistry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
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Gairdner Foundation International Award ⓘ Knight Bachelor ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1942-03-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Cambridge, England ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stomach cancer ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Georgina Ferry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2018-03-06 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Colin Reese ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cambridge and County High School for Boys
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Pembroke College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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linked to:
MRC LMB
Sanger Centre ⓘ
linked to:
Wellcome Sanger Institute
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| familyName |
Sulston
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linked to:
John Sulston
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| fieldOfWork |
developmental biology
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genetics ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Sir John Edward Sulston
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linked to:
John Sulston
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| givenName | John ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for open access to genomic data
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mapping the cell lineage of C. elegans ⓘ research on Caenorhabditis elegans ⓘ work on the Human Genome Project ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nobelLaureateFor | discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death ⓘ |
| nobelLaureateWith |
H. Robert Horvitz
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Sydney Brenner ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeCategory |
Physiology or Medicine
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linked to:
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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| nobelPrizeYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester
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director of the Sanger Centre ⓘ |
| researchContribution |
complete cell lineage of C. elegans embryo
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genetic mapping of C. elegans ⓘ leadership in large-scale genome sequencing ⓘ |
| researchSubject | Caenorhabditis elegans ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge, England
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Hinxton, Cambridgeshire ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: John Sulston Description of subject: John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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