May-Britt Moser
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May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her discovery of grid cells, which are crucial for the brain’s spatial navigation system.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| May-Britt Moser canonical | 11 |
| May-Britt Moser (honorary doctorate, not student) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T205514 — 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: May-Britt Moser Context triple: [University of Oslo, hasNotableAlumni, May-Britt Moser]
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A.
Catharina Bolnes
Catharina Bolnes was the wife of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the mother of his many children, known primarily through her connection to the artist’s life and estate.
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B.
Tonje Brenna
Tonje Brenna is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party who has held prominent leadership roles and served as a government minister.
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C.
Rebekka Karijord
Rebekka Karijord is a Norwegian-born composer, musician, and singer-songwriter known for her atmospheric, emotionally rich film scores and experimental folk-inspired music.
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D.
Maila Nurmi
Maila Nurmi was a Finnish-American actress and television personality best known for creating and portraying the iconic 1950s horror hostess character Vampira.
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E.
Ragnhild Lie
Ragnhild Lie is a Norwegian given name bearer, likely known as a woman from Norway with the surname Lie, though specific public details about her are limited.
- 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: May-Britt Moser Target entity description: May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her discovery of grid cells, which are crucial for the brain’s spatial navigation system.
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A.
Catharina Bolnes
Catharina Bolnes was the wife of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the mother of his many children, known primarily through her connection to the artist’s life and estate.
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B.
Tonje Brenna
Tonje Brenna is a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party who has held prominent leadership roles and served as a government minister.
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C.
Rebekka Karijord
Rebekka Karijord is a Norwegian-born composer, musician, and singer-songwriter known for her atmospheric, emotionally rich film scores and experimental folk-inspired music.
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D.
Maila Nurmi
Maila Nurmi was a Finnish-American actress and television personality best known for creating and portraying the iconic 1950s horror hostess character Vampira.
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E.
Ragnhild Lie
Ragnhild Lie is a Norwegian given name bearer, likely known as a woman from Norway with the surname Lie, though specific public details about her are limited.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: May-Britt Moser Description of subject: May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her discovery of grid cells, which are crucial for the brain’s spatial navigation system.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: May-Britt Moser