Peter Agre
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Peter Agre is an American physician and molecular biologist who won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins, the water channel proteins in cell membranes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Agre canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2352133 — 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: Peter Agre Context triple: [South High School (Minneapolis), notableAlumnus, Peter Agre]
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Roger Y. Tsien
Roger Y. Tsien was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the development of fluorescent dyes for imaging cellular processes.
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B.
Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug was a Nobel Prize–winning chemist and biophysicist renowned for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and elucidating the structures of complex biological molecules.
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Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus is a Nobel Prize–winning American cancer researcher and former director of the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute.
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D.
Jacques Dubochet
Jacques Dubochet is a Swiss biophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his pioneering work in developing cryo-electron microscopy for high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules.
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E.
Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman was an American mathematician and crystallographer renowned for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures, work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- 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: Peter Agre Target entity description: Peter Agre is an American physician and molecular biologist who won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins, the water channel proteins in cell membranes.
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A.
Roger Y. Tsien
Roger Y. Tsien was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the development of fluorescent dyes for imaging cellular processes.
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B.
Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug was a Nobel Prize–winning chemist and biophysicist renowned for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and elucidating the structures of complex biological molecules.
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C.
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus is a Nobel Prize–winning American cancer researcher and former director of the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute.
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D.
Jacques Dubochet
Jacques Dubochet is a Swiss biophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his pioneering work in developing cryo-electron microscopy for high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules.
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E.
Herbert A. Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman was an American mathematician and crystallographer renowned for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures, work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Peter Agre Description of subject: Peter Agre is an American physician and molecular biologist who won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins, the water channel proteins in cell membranes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.