Michael Levitt
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Michael Levitt is a biophysicist and computational chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Levitt canonical | 6 |
| biophysicist Michael Levitt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4763377 — 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: Michael Levitt Context triple: [Martin Karplus, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Michael Levitt]
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Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus is a theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in developing multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
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Arieh Warshel
Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in computational chemistry and the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
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C.
Ronald Breslow
Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
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D.
Peter B. Dervan
Peter B. Dervan is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in bioorganic chemistry, particularly the design of small molecules that recognize and bind specific DNA sequences.
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E.
Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Paul von Ragué Schleyer was a prominent theoretical and physical organic chemist known for his influential work on carbocations, computational chemistry, and the structure and stability of organic molecules.
- 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: Michael Levitt Target entity description: Michael Levitt is a biophysicist and computational chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
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A.
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus is a theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in developing multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
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B.
Arieh Warshel
Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in computational chemistry and the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
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C.
Ronald Breslow
Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
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D.
Peter B. Dervan
Peter B. Dervan is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in bioorganic chemistry, particularly the design of small molecules that recognize and bind specific DNA sequences.
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E.
Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Paul von Ragué Schleyer was a prominent theoretical and physical organic chemist known for his influential work on carbocations, computational chemistry, and the structure and stability of organic molecules.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Chemistry
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biophysicist ⓘ computational chemist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
PhD
ⓘ
linked to:
Doctor of Philosophy
|
| awardReceived |
DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences
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Max Planck Medal ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Israel
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Union of South Africa
ⓘ
linked to:
Dominion of South Africa
|
| dateOfBirth | 1947-05-09 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Samuel Karlin ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
King's College London
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linked to:
King’s College London
University of Cambridge ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Levitt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biophysics
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computational chemistry ⓘ molecular dynamics ⓘ structural biology ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
enzyme catalysis modeling
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molecular simulations of biomolecules ⓘ protein folding ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pioneering multiscale modeling in computational chemistry
ⓘ
theoretical studies of macromolecular structure ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
ⓘ
Royal Society ⓘ United States National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Sciences
|
| nobelPrizeCategory | Chemistry ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Ron Dror ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pretoria
ⓘ
linked to:
Pretoria, South Africa
|
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesNobelPrizeWith |
Arieh Warshel
ⓘ
Martin Karplus ⓘ |
| workplace |
Stanford University School of Medicine
ⓘ
linked to:
Stanford Medicine
|
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: Michael Levitt Description of subject: Michael Levitt is a biophysicist and computational chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Michael Levitt