Eijkman
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Eijkman is the surname of Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician and Nobel Prize–winning physiologist known for his work on the role of vitamins in preventing beriberi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eijkman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3670792 — 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: Eijkman Context triple: [Christiaan Eijkman, familyName, Eijkman]
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Kao
Kao is a Chinese surname borne by numerous individuals, including notable figures in science, business, and the arts.
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B.
Taro
Taro is a common Japanese male given name, often written with kanji meaning "eldest son" or similar traditional connotations.
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Koki
Koki is a fictional character associated with Raka, likely appearing alongside them in a shared narrative or story.
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Eichig
Eichig is a small locality that forms part of the town of Lichtenfels in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.
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E.
Michishio
Michishio was a Japanese Navy destroyer that served in World War II and was sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944.
- 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: Eijkman Target entity description: Eijkman is the surname of Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician and Nobel Prize–winning physiologist known for his work on the role of vitamins in preventing beriberi.
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A.
Kao
Kao is a Chinese surname borne by numerous individuals, including notable figures in science, business, and the arts.
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B.
Taro
Taro is a common Japanese male given name, often written with kanji meaning "eldest son" or similar traditional connotations.
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C.
Koki
Koki is a fictional character associated with Raka, likely appearing alongside them in a shared narrative or story.
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D.
Eichig
Eichig is a small locality that forms part of the town of Lichtenfels in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.
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E.
Michishio
Michishio was a Japanese Navy destroyer that served in World War II and was sunk during the Battle of Surigao Strait in 1944.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ physiologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929 ⓘ
linked to:
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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| causeOfFame | linking polished rice diet to beriberi ⓘ |
| contributedTo | vitamin theory ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of the Netherlands ⓘ |
| employer |
academic and medical institutions in the Netherlands
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laboratories in the Dutch East Indies ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Dutch ⓘ |
| familyName | Eijkman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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nutrition ⓘ physiology ⓘ vitamin research ⓘ |
| givenName | Christiaan ⓘ |
| influenced | development of nutritional science ⓘ |
| knownFor |
demonstrating that beriberi is caused by dietary deficiency
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work on deficiency diseases ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Dutch ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeMotivation | for the discovery of the antineuritic vitamin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
discovery of the role of vitamins in preventing beriberi
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research on beriberi ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
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physiologist ⓘ |
| researchMethod | animal experiments with chickens ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesAwardWith | Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins ⓘ |
| studied |
beriberi
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vitamin B1 (thiamine) ⓘ |
| usedBy | Christiaan Eijkman ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Dutch East Indies
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Netherlands ⓘ |
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: Eijkman Description of subject: Eijkman is the surname of Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician and Nobel Prize–winning physiologist known for his work on the role of vitamins in preventing beriberi.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Eijkman