Richard Tsien
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Richard Tsien is a prominent American neuroscientist and biophysicist renowned for his pioneering work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Tsien canonical | 3 |
| Richard W. Tsien | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T374626 — 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: Richard Tsien Context triple: [Karl Deisseroth, hasDoctoralAdvisor, Richard Tsien]
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A.
Terrence Sejnowski
Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneering computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher known for foundational contributions to neural networks and learning algorithms.
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B.
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is an American neuroscientist and bioengineer renowned for pioneering optogenetics and advanced brain-imaging techniques that have transformed the study of neural circuits and behavior.
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C.
Jeffry M. Picower
Jeffry M. Picower was an American investor and philanthropist best known for his major financial support of neuroscience research and for his controversial involvement in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
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D.
Joseph C. Tsai
Joseph C. Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, and principal owner of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise.
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E.
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.
- 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: Richard Tsien Target entity description: Richard Tsien is a prominent American neuroscientist and biophysicist renowned for his pioneering work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity.
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A.
Terrence Sejnowski
Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneering computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher known for foundational contributions to neural networks and learning algorithms.
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B.
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is an American neuroscientist and bioengineer renowned for pioneering optogenetics and advanced brain-imaging techniques that have transformed the study of neural circuits and behavior.
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C.
Jeffry M. Picower
Jeffry M. Picower was an American investor and philanthropist best known for his major financial support of neuroscience research and for his controversial involvement in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
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D.
Joseph C. Tsai
Joseph C. Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, and principal owner of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biophysicist
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human ⓘ neuroscientist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in biophysics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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linked to:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Membership in the National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
linked to:
National Academy of Sciences
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTopic | biophysical mechanisms in excitable cells ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Oxford University ⓘ
linked to:
University of Oxford
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| employer |
New York University
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Chinese American ⓘ |
| familyName | Tsien ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biophysics
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cellular neurophysiology ⓘ molecular neuroscience ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ synaptic plasticity ⓘ synaptic transmission ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Denis Noble ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Roger Y. Tsien ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ Society for Neuroscience ⓘ |
| name |
Richard W. Tsien
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linked to:
Richard Tsien
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| notableFor |
pioneering work on cellular mechanisms of synaptic transmission
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pioneering work on molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Thomas Südhof ⓘ |
| notableWork |
studies of calcium channel function in neurons
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studies of synaptic modulation and plasticity ⓘ |
| occupation |
research scientist
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university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Langone Medical Center
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Chair of the Department of Physiology at Stanford University ⓘ Founding Director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute ⓘ Professor of Neuroscience ⓘ Professor of Physiology ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
mechanisms of learning and memory at synapses
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regulation of synaptic strength ⓘ signal transduction in neurons ⓘ voltage-gated calcium channels ⓘ |
| siblingRelationship | Older brother of Roger Y. Tsien ⓘ |
| workInstitution |
NYU Langone Medical Center
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New York University ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ |
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: Richard Tsien Description of subject: Richard Tsien is a prominent American neuroscientist and biophysicist renowned for his pioneering work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Richard Tsien