Frank Macfarlane Burnet
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Frank Macfarlane Burnet was an Australian virologist and immunologist, Nobel laureate, and pioneer of the clonal selection theory of acquired immunity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frank Macfarlane Burnet canonical | 2 |
| Frank Burnet | 1 |
| Nobel laureate Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18858188 — 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: Frank Macfarlane Burnet Context triple: [Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture, namedAfter, Frank Macfarlane Burnet]
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Charles Medawar
Charles Medawar is a British social policy analyst and author known for his critical work on pharmaceutical regulation, drug safety, and consumer protection.
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Alexander Medawar
Alexander Medawar is the son of Nobel Prize–winning British biologist and immunologist Sir Peter Medawar.
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Peter Medawar
Peter Medawar was a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on tissue graft rejection and the concept of acquired immunological tolerance.
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Howard Florey
Howard Florey was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pivotal role in developing penicillin into a practical antibiotic treatment.
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
- 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: Frank Macfarlane Burnet Target entity description: Frank Macfarlane Burnet was an Australian virologist and immunologist, Nobel laureate, and pioneer of the clonal selection theory of acquired immunity.
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A.
Charles Medawar
Charles Medawar is a British social policy analyst and author known for his critical work on pharmaceutical regulation, drug safety, and consumer protection.
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B.
Alexander Medawar
Alexander Medawar is the son of Nobel Prize–winning British biologist and immunologist Sir Peter Medawar.
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C.
Peter Medawar
Peter Medawar was a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on tissue graft rejection and the concept of acquired immunological tolerance.
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D.
Howard Florey
Howard Florey was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pivotal role in developing penicillin into a practical antibiotic treatment.
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E.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Frank Macfarlane Burnet
linked to: Frank Macfarlane Burnet