Elihu Hodgkin
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Elihu Hodgkin is a historical figure after whom Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer of the lymphatic system, is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elihu Hodgkin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342908 — 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: Elihu Hodgkin Context triple: [Hodgkin, hasNotableBearer, Elihu Hodgkin]
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A.
Silvanus P. Thompson
Silvanus P. Thompson was a British physicist and electrical engineer known for his influential work in electromagnetism and for popularizing science through his writings and lectures.
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B.
Joseph Henry West
Joseph Henry West is the full legal name of Joe West, a character commonly known in popular media under his shorter, informal name.
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C.
Henry G. Morse
Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
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D.
Alexander Lyman Holley
Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
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E.
Edward C. Judson
Edward C. Judson was an American businessman and film promoter best known as the first husband and early career manager of Hollywood star Rita Hayworth.
- 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: Elihu Hodgkin Target entity description: Elihu Hodgkin is a historical figure after whom Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer of the lymphatic system, is named.
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A.
Silvanus P. Thompson
Silvanus P. Thompson was a British physicist and electrical engineer known for his influential work in electromagnetism and for popularizing science through his writings and lectures.
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B.
Joseph Henry West
Joseph Henry West is the full legal name of Joe West, a character commonly known in popular media under his shorter, informal name.
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C.
Henry G. Morse
Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
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D.
Alexander Lyman Holley
Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
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E.
Edward C. Judson
Edward C. Judson was an American businessman and film promoter best known as the first husband and early career manager of Hollywood star Rita Hayworth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cancer
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lymphatic system ⓘ |
| eponymOf | Hodgkin lymphoma ⓘ |
| hasNameEponym | Hodgkin lymphoma ⓘ |
| knownFor | being namesake of Hodgkin lymphoma ⓘ |
| nameUsedIn | Hodgkin lymphoma ⓘ |
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: Elihu Hodgkin Description of subject: Elihu Hodgkin is a historical figure after whom Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer of the lymphatic system, is named.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.