Rosalind Franklin
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Rosalind Franklin was a pioneering British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose critical diffraction images of DNA were essential to revealing its double-helix structure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rosalind Franklin canonical | 33 |
| R. Franklin | 1 |
| Rosalind Elsie Franklin | 1 |
| She Persisted: Rosalind Franklin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T625237 — 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: Rosalind Franklin Context triple: [Francis Crick, coDiscovererWith, Rosalind Franklin]
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of vital biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
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Francis Crick
Francis Crick was a British molecular biologist best known as co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure, a breakthrough that transformed modern genetics and earned him a Nobel Prize.
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James Watson
James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
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Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
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Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
- 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: Rosalind Franklin Target entity description: Rosalind Franklin was a pioneering British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose critical diffraction images of DNA were essential to revealing its double-helix structure.
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A.
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of vital biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
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B.
Francis Crick
Francis Crick was a British molecular biologist best known as co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure, a breakthrough that transformed modern genetics and earned him a Nobel Prize.
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C.
James Watson
James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
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D.
Max Perutz
Max Perutz was an Austrian-British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering X-ray crystallography studies of hemoglobin and helping to found the field of molecular biology.
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E.
Ada Yonath
Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel Prize–winning chemist renowned for her pioneering work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Rosalind Franklin Description of subject: Rosalind Franklin was a pioneering British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose critical diffraction images of DNA were essential to revealing its double-helix structure.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rosalind Franklin
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“Home Invasion”
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RFU
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 for DNA structure
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 for DNA structure