premotor cortex
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The premotor cortex is a region of the frontal lobe involved in planning and preparing voluntary movements, integrating sensory information to guide motor actions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| premotor cortex canonical | 8 |
| lateral premotor cortex | 1 |
| medial frontal cortex | 1 |
| ventral premotor cortex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909526 — 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: premotor cortex Context triple: [Broca's area, connectedTo, premotor cortex]
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A.
primary motor cortex
The primary motor cortex is a brain region in the frontal lobe responsible for the voluntary control and precise execution of skeletal muscle movements.
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B.
supplementary motor area
The supplementary motor area is a region of the medial frontal cortex involved in planning, coordinating, and initiating complex voluntary movements, especially those requiring sequences or bilateral coordination.
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C.
prefrontal cortex
The prefrontal cortex is the front part of the brain’s frontal lobes responsible for higher-order functions such as decision-making, attention, impulse control, and working memory.
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D.
Broca's area
Broca's area is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain that is crucial for speech production and language processing.
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E.
cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is the brain’s highly folded outer layer responsible for complex functions such as perception, language, thought, and voluntary 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: premotor cortex Target entity description: The premotor cortex is a region of the frontal lobe involved in planning and preparing voluntary movements, integrating sensory information to guide motor actions.
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primary motor cortex
The primary motor cortex is a brain region in the frontal lobe responsible for the voluntary control and precise execution of skeletal muscle movements.
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B.
supplementary motor area
The supplementary motor area is a region of the medial frontal cortex involved in planning, coordinating, and initiating complex voluntary movements, especially those requiring sequences or bilateral coordination.
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C.
prefrontal cortex
The prefrontal cortex is the front part of the brain’s frontal lobes responsible for higher-order functions such as decision-making, attention, impulse control, and working memory.
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D.
Broca's area
Broca's area is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain that is crucial for speech production and language processing.
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E.
cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is the brain’s highly folded outer layer responsible for complex functions such as perception, language, thought, and voluntary movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brain region
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cortical area ⓘ motor-related cortical area ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
externally guided movements
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mirror neurons ⓘ |
| borderedAnteriorlyBy | prefrontal cortex ⓘ |
| borderedPosteriorlyBy | primary motor cortex ⓘ |
| cytoarchitectonicArea | Brodmann area 6 ⓘ |
| damageCanCause |
apraxia
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deficits in movement planning ⓘ impaired use of external cues for movement ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
primary motor cortex
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supplementary motor area ⓘ |
| foundInSpecies |
humans
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non-human primates ⓘ |
| hasSubregion |
dorsal premotor cortex
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medial premotor cortex ⓘ pre-supplementary motor area ⓘ
linked to:
supplementary motor area
supplementary motor area ⓘ ventral premotor cortex ⓘ
linked to:
premotor cortex
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| involvedIn |
bimanual coordination
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conditional motor learning ⓘ control of proximal limb movements ⓘ control of reaching movements ⓘ eye–hand coordination ⓘ grasping movements ⓘ imitation of actions ⓘ learning of motor skills ⓘ mirror neuron system activity ⓘ motor attention ⓘ motor imagery ⓘ motor planning ⓘ motor preparation ⓘ movement selection based on external cues ⓘ movement selection based on sensory stimuli ⓘ observation of actions ⓘ planning of voluntary movements ⓘ postural control ⓘ preparation of voluntary movements ⓘ selection of movements ⓘ sensorimotor integration ⓘ sequencing of movements ⓘ spatial guidance of movement ⓘ |
| locatedAnteriorTo | primary motor cortex ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brodmann area 6
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frontal lobe of the brain ⓘ |
| locatedPosteriorTo | prefrontal cortex ⓘ |
| neuroimagingShowsActivationDuring |
action observation tasks
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motor imagery tasks ⓘ movement preparation tasks ⓘ |
| partOf |
cerebral cortex
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frontal cortex ⓘ frontal lobe ⓘ |
| projectsTo |
brainstem motor nuclei
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primary motor cortex ⓘ spinal cord ⓘ |
| receivesInputFrom |
basal ganglia
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cerebellum ⓘ parietal cortex ⓘ prefrontal cortex ⓘ |
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: premotor cortex Description of subject: The premotor cortex is a region of the frontal lobe involved in planning and preparing voluntary movements, integrating sensory information to guide motor actions.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: premotor cortex
linked to: premotor cortex
subject linked to:
SMA
linked to: premotor cortex