Hodgkin
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Hodgkin is a surname most famously associated with Dorothy Hodgkin, the Nobel Prize–winning British chemist who advanced the field of X-ray crystallography.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hodgkin canonical | 30 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560988 — 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: Hodgkin Context triple: [Dorothy Hodgkin, familyName, Hodgkin]
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A.
Graves
Graves is a renowned wine-producing subregion on the left bank of Bordeaux, France, famous for its gravelly soils and high-quality red and white wines.
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B.
Peto
Peto is a minor companion of Sir John Falstaff and Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, often depicted as a comic, roguish follower involved in their tavern escapades.
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C.
Struma
The Struma is a significant river in the Balkans that flows from western Bulgaria into Greece, ultimately emptying into the Aegean Sea.
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D.
Leqembi
Leqembi is an Alzheimer’s disease drug (lecanemab) that targets amyloid-beta plaques to slow cognitive decline in early-stage patients.
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E.
Nemocón
Nemocón is a Colombian town in the department of Cundinamarca, best known for its historic underground salt mine and scenic Andean surroundings.
- 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: Hodgkin Target entity description: Hodgkin is a surname most famously associated with Dorothy Hodgkin, the Nobel Prize–winning British chemist who advanced the field of X-ray crystallography.
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A.
Graves
Graves is a renowned wine-producing subregion on the left bank of Bordeaux, France, famous for its gravelly soils and high-quality red and white wines.
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B.
Peto
Peto is a minor companion of Sir John Falstaff and Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, often depicted as a comic, roguish follower involved in their tavern escapades.
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C.
Struma
The Struma is a significant river in the Balkans that flows from western Bulgaria into Greece, ultimately emptying into the Aegean Sea.
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D.
Leqembi
Leqembi is an Alzheimer’s disease drug (lecanemab) that targets amyloid-beta plaques to slow cognitive decline in early-stage patients.
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E.
Nemocón
Nemocón is a Colombian town in the department of Cundinamarca, best known for its historic underground salt mine and scenic Andean surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Adrian Hodgkin
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Alan Hodgkin ⓘ Andrew Hodgkin ⓘ Arthur Hodgkin ⓘ Brian Hodgkin ⓘ Charles Hodgkin ⓘ Christopher Hodgkin ⓘ Colin Hodgkin ⓘ David Hodgkin ⓘ Dorothy Hodgkin ⓘ Edward Hodgkin ⓘ Elihu Hodgkin ⓘ Emily Hodgkin ⓘ Frederick Hodgkin ⓘ George Hodgkin ⓘ Gordon Hodgkin ⓘ Harold Hodgkin ⓘ Henry Theodore Hodgkin ⓘ Howard Hodgkin ⓘ Ian Hodgkin ⓘ James Hodgkin ⓘ John Eliot Hodgkin ⓘ
linked to:
John Hodgkin
John Hodgkin ⓘ Jonathan Hodgkin ⓘ Lancelot Hodgkin ⓘ Luke Hodgkin ⓘ Margaret Hodgkin ⓘ Michael Hodgkin ⓘ Neville Hodgkin ⓘ Nicholas Hodgkin ⓘ Paul Hodgkin ⓘ Peter Hodgkin ⓘ Philip Hodgkin ⓘ R. A. Hodgkin ⓘ Richard Hodgkin ⓘ Robert Hodgkin ⓘ Robin Hodgkin ⓘ Roger Hodgkin ⓘ Sarah Hodgkin ⓘ Stephen Hodgkin ⓘ Thomas Hodgkin ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin ⓘ Thomas Vere Hodgkin ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
Timothy Hodgkin ⓘ William Hodgkin ⓘ |
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: Hodgkin Description of subject: Hodgkin is a surname most famously associated with Dorothy Hodgkin, the Nobel Prize–winning British chemist who advanced the field of X-ray crystallography.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.