Michael Eisen
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Michael Eisen is an American computational and evolutionary biologist known for his pioneering work in genomics and as a co-founder of the open-access publisher PLOS.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Eisen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9086232 — 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 Eisen Context triple: [David Botstein, notableStudent, Michael Eisen]
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A.
Michael Levin
Michael Levin is a philosopher known for his work in epistemology, philosophy of race, and his controversial conservative views on social and political issues.
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B.
Michael Ehrlich
Michael Ehrlich is a relatively obscure individual whose primary public mention appears to be as a namesake associated with the surname Ehrlich.
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C.
Michael Goulian
Michael Goulian is an American aerobatic champion and airshow performer best known for competing at the highest level in international air racing events.
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D.
Bob Eisenhardt
Bob Eisenhardt is an acclaimed American film editor known for his work on documentaries, including the Oscar-winning climbing film "Free Solo."
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E.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
- 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 Eisen Target entity description: Michael Eisen is an American computational and evolutionary biologist known for his pioneering work in genomics and as a co-founder of the open-access publisher PLOS.
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A.
Michael Levin
Michael Levin is a philosopher known for his work in epistemology, philosophy of race, and his controversial conservative views on social and political issues.
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B.
Michael Ehrlich
Michael Ehrlich is a relatively obscure individual whose primary public mention appears to be as a namesake associated with the surname Ehrlich.
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C.
Michael Goulian
Michael Goulian is an American aerobatic champion and airshow performer best known for competing at the highest level in international air racing events.
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D.
Bob Eisenhardt
Bob Eisenhardt is an acclaimed American film editor known for his work on documentaries, including the Oscar-winning climbing film "Free Solo."
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E.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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academic ⓘ computational biologist ⓘ geneticist ⓘ open access advocate ⓘ science publisher ⓘ |
| advocates | open access to scientific literature ⓘ |
| almaMater | Harvard University ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Overton Prize
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Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
PLOS Biology
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Public Library of Science ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Eisen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bioinformatics
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computational biology ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ genomics ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasBlog | http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog ⓘ |
| hasORCID | 0000-0002-XXXX-XXXX ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Jonathan Eisen
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linked to:
Jonathan A. Eisen
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| hasResearchModelOrganism | Drosophila melanogaster ⓘ |
| hasRole | editor-in-chief of eLife ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.michaeleisen.org ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for open access publishing
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co-founding the Public Library of Science (PLOS) ⓘ pioneering work in genomics ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name | Michael Eisen ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
faculty member at University of California, Berkeley
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investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
Drosophila genomics
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evolution of regulatory DNA ⓘ functional genomics ⓘ regulation of gene expression ⓘ |
| sibling |
Jonathan Eisen
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linked to:
Jonathan A. Eisen
|
| supports | Creative Commons licensing for research articles ⓘ |
| twitterHandle | @mbeisen ⓘ |
| workInstitution |
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
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linked to:
Department of Integrative Biology
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
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: Michael Eisen Description of subject: Michael Eisen is an American computational and evolutionary biologist known for his pioneering work in genomics and as a co-founder of the open-access publisher PLOS.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.