Shi Yigong
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Shi Yigong is a prominent Chinese structural biologist and academic leader known for his influential research on protein structures and his role in advancing higher education and scientific research in China.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shi Yigong canonical | 2 |
| Yigong | 1 |
| 施一公 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3412628 — 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: Shi Yigong Context triple: [University of Science and Technology of China, hasNotableAlumni, Shi Yigong]
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A.
Liu Songlin
Liu Songlin was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.
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B.
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
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C.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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D.
Yuan-Cheng Fung
Yuan-Cheng Fung was a pioneering bioengineer often regarded as the "father of modern biomechanics" for his foundational contributions to the mechanics of living tissues.
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E.
Chen Yongren
Chen Yongren is the undercover police officer protagonist of the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," whose character later inspired Billy Costigan in the American remake "The Departed."
- 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: Shi Yigong Target entity description: Shi Yigong is a prominent Chinese structural biologist and academic leader known for his influential research on protein structures and his role in advancing higher education and scientific research in China.
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A.
Liu Songlin
Liu Songlin was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.
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B.
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
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C.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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D.
Yuan-Cheng Fung
Yuan-Cheng Fung was a pioneering bioengineer often regarded as the "father of modern biomechanics" for his foundational contributions to the mechanics of living tissues.
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E.
Chen Yongren
Chen Yongren is the undercover police officer protagonist of the Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," whose character later inspired Billy Costigan in the American remake "The Departed."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic leader
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biophysicist ⓘ human ⓘ structural biologist ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in biophysics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
HHMI investigator appointment
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various major Chinese national science awards ⓘ |
| citizenship | China ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
China
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United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Johns Hopkins University
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Tsinghua University ⓘ |
| employer |
Princeton University
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Tsinghua University ⓘ Westlake University ⓘ |
| familyName | Shi ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
RNA splicing
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apoptosis ⓘ biochemistry ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ structural biology ⓘ |
| givenName |
Yigong
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linked to:
Shi Yigong
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| influenced |
development of structural biology in China
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training of a generation of Chinese structural biologists ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership in Chinese higher education reform
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promotion of basic scientific research in China ⓘ research on protein structures ⓘ work on programmed cell death pathways ⓘ work on spliceosome structure and mechanism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Chinese Academy of Sciences Academy of Sciences for Developing World (TWAS) ⓘ
linked to:
Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
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| name |
施一公
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linked to:
Shi Yigong
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| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
elucidation of structures of key spliceosome components
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structural studies of apoptotic regulators ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founding president of Westlake University
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president of Westlake University ⓘ professor at Princeton University ⓘ professor at Tsinghua University ⓘ vice president of Tsinghua University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
X-ray crystallography
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cryo-electron microscopy ⓘ macromolecular complexes ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Beijing
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Hangzhou ⓘ |
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: Shi Yigong Description of subject: Shi Yigong is a prominent Chinese structural biologist and academic leader known for his influential research on protein structures and his role in advancing higher education and scientific research in China.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shi Yigong
linked to: Shi Yigong