Thomas Steitz
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Thomas Steitz was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering structural studies of the ribosome.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas A. Steitz | 4 |
| Thomas Steitz canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2825240 — 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: Thomas Steitz Context triple: [Yale School of Medicine, hasNotableFaculty, Thomas Steitz]
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan is a Nobel Prize–winning structural biologist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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John Kendrew
John Kendrew was a British biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the three-dimensional structure of the protein myoglobin.
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Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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Joan A. Steitz
Joan A. Steitz is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work on RNA biology and the discovery of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) involved in RNA splicing.
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Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
- 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: Thomas Steitz Target entity description: Thomas Steitz was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering structural studies of the ribosome.
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A.
Venki Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan is a Nobel Prize–winning structural biologist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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B.
John Kendrew
John Kendrew was a British biochemist and crystallographer who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the three-dimensional structure of the protein myoglobin.
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C.
Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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D.
Joan A. Steitz
Joan A. Steitz is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work on RNA biology and the discovery of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) involved in RNA splicing.
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E.
Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Thomas Steitz Description of subject: Thomas Steitz was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering structural studies of the ribosome.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas Steitz
linked to: Thomas Steitz
linked to: Thomas Steitz
subject linked to:
Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana
linked to: Thomas Steitz