Eric F. Wieschaus
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Eric F. Wieschaus is an American developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering genetic studies of embryonic development in the fruit fly Drosophila.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric F. Wieschaus canonical | 3 |
| Edward B. Lewis | 1 |
| Eric Wieschaus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3542875 — 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: Eric F. Wieschaus Context triple: [Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, NobelPrizeSharedWith, Eric F. Wieschaus]
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her pioneering work on the genetic control of embryonic development in Drosophila.
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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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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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D.
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.
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E.
John Sulston
John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
- 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: Eric F. Wieschaus Target entity description: Eric F. Wieschaus is an American developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering genetic studies of embryonic development in the fruit fly Drosophila.
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A.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her pioneering work on the genetic control of embryonic development in Drosophila.
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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.
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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D.
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.
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E.
John Sulston
John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eric F. Wieschaus Description of subject: Eric F. Wieschaus is an American developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering genetic studies of embryonic development in the fruit fly Drosophila.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.