Shirley M. Tilghman
E421153
Canadian-born American scientist
Princeton University faculty member
academic administrator
molecular biologist
university president
woman scientist
Shirley M. Tilghman is a Canadian-born molecular biologist and former president of Princeton University, widely recognized for her leadership in higher education and advocacy for science and women in academia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shirley M. Tilghman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4220710 — 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: Shirley M. Tilghman Context triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Shirley M. Tilghman]
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A.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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B.
Susan R. Wente
Susan R. Wente is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Wake Forest University.
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C.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson is an American physicist and trailblazing academic leader renowned for her pioneering research in theoretical physics and for being one of the first Black women to earn a Ph.D. from MIT.
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D.
Nina K. Noble
Nina K. Noble is an American television producer best known for her longtime collaboration with David Simon on acclaimed HBO series such as The Wire, Treme, and The Deuce.
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E.
Carla J. Shatz
Carla J. Shatz is an influential American neuroscientist renowned for her pioneering work on activity-dependent development and plasticity in the visual system and the brain.
- 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: Shirley M. Tilghman Target entity description: Shirley M. Tilghman is a Canadian-born molecular biologist and former president of Princeton University, widely recognized for her leadership in higher education and advocacy for science and women in academia.
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A.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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B.
Susan R. Wente
Susan R. Wente is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Wake Forest University.
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C.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson is an American physicist and trailblazing academic leader renowned for her pioneering research in theoretical physics and for being one of the first Black women to earn a Ph.D. from MIT.
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D.
Nina K. Noble
Nina K. Noble is an American television producer best known for her longtime collaboration with David Simon on acclaimed HBO series such as The Wire, Treme, and The Deuce.
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E.
Carla J. Shatz
Carla J. Shatz is an influential American neuroscientist renowned for her pioneering work on activity-dependent development and plasticity in the visual system and the brain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian-born American scientist
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Princeton University faculty member ⓘ academic administrator ⓘ molecular biologist ⓘ university president ⓘ woman scientist ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science
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PhD in Biochemistry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Genetics Society of America Medal
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Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science ⓘ Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmental Biology ⓘ National Medal of Science (member of awarding committee, not recipient) ⓘ
linked to:
National Medal of Science
|
| boardMemberOf |
Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Google Inc. (board of directors) ⓘ
linked to:
Board of Directors of Alphabet Inc.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (trustee) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-09-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Queen's University at Kingston
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Temple University ⓘ |
| employer | Princeton University ⓘ |
| endTime | 2013 ⓘ |
| familyName | Tilghman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
developmental biology
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genetics ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Shirley ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for diversity in academia
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advocacy for women in science ⓘ leadership in higher education ⓘ research on gene regulation in early mammalian development ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ Royal Society of London (foreign member) ⓘ
linked to:
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
|
| name | Shirley M. Tilghman ⓘ |
| notableIdea | reforming graduate and postdoctoral training in the life sciences ⓘ |
| notableWork |
contributions to the Human Genome Project advisory efforts
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reports on the future of the biomedical research workforce ⓘ research on the H19 gene and genomic imprinting ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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linked to:
Toronto
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| positionHeld |
Founding Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
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President of Princeton University ⓘ Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University ⓘ |
| residence | Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ |
| startTime | 2001 ⓘ |
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: Shirley M. Tilghman Description of subject: Shirley M. Tilghman is a Canadian-born molecular biologist and former president of Princeton University, widely recognized for her leadership in higher education and advocacy for science and women in academia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.