Michael Rosbash
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Michael Rosbash is an American geneticist and chronobiologist renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms, for which he received major scientific honors including the Lasker Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
All labels observed (1)
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| Michael Rosbash canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2860667 — 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: Michael Rosbash Context triple: [Lasker Basic Award, notableLaureate, Michael Rosbash]
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Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
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Mark Ptashne
Mark Ptashne is an American molecular biologist renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the discovery of how transcription factors control gene expression in phage and eukaryotic systems.
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Richard Tsien
Richard Tsien is a prominent American neuroscientist and biophysicist renowned for his pioneering work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity.
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Richard Axel
Richard Axel is an American neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular biology of the sense of smell.
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Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
- 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: Michael Rosbash Target entity description: Michael Rosbash is an American geneticist and chronobiologist renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms, for which he received major scientific honors including the Lasker Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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A.
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
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B.
Mark Ptashne
Mark Ptashne is an American molecular biologist renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the discovery of how transcription factors control gene expression in phage and eukaryotic systems.
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C.
Richard Tsien
Richard Tsien is a prominent American neuroscientist and biophysicist renowned for his pioneering work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity.
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D.
Richard Axel
Richard Axel is an American neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular biology of the sense of smell.
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E.
Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
- 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: Michael Rosbash Description of subject: Michael Rosbash is an American geneticist and chronobiologist renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms, for which he received major scientific honors including the Lasker Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.