Alice Y. Ting
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Alice Y. Ting is a chemical biologist known for pioneering methods to label and map proteins and cellular interactions in living cells.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Y. Ting canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10305154 — 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: Alice Y. Ting Context triple: [Roger Y. Tsien, notableStudent, Alice Y. Ting]
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A.
Jane X. Luu
Jane X. Luu is an astronomer best known for co-discovering the first Kuiper Belt Object beyond Pluto, helping to revolutionize our understanding of the outer Solar System.
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B.
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa "Connie" Chung is an American television journalist and news anchor known for her work on major U.S. networks including CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC.
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C.
Tina Cohen-Chang
Tina Cohen-Chang is a shy yet talented singer and member of the New Directions glee club in the television series "Glee."
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D.
Kyung Wha Chung
Kyung Wha Chung is a renowned South Korean violinist celebrated for her virtuosic technique and international solo career.
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E.
Eugenia Yuan
Eugenia Yuan is a Hong Kong–born American actress and former rhythmic gymnast known for her roles in international martial arts and drama films.
- 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: Alice Y. Ting Target entity description: Alice Y. Ting is a chemical biologist known for pioneering methods to label and map proteins and cellular interactions in living cells.
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A.
Jane X. Luu
Jane X. Luu is an astronomer best known for co-discovering the first Kuiper Belt Object beyond Pluto, helping to revolutionize our understanding of the outer Solar System.
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B.
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa "Connie" Chung is an American television journalist and news anchor known for her work on major U.S. networks including CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC.
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C.
Tina Cohen-Chang
Tina Cohen-Chang is a shy yet talented singer and member of the New Directions glee club in the television series "Glee."
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D.
Kyung Wha Chung
Kyung Wha Chung is a renowned South Korean violinist celebrated for her virtuosic technique and international solo career.
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E.
Eugenia Yuan
Eugenia Yuan is a Hong Kong–born American actress and former rhythmic gymnast known for her roles in international martial arts and drama films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemical biologist
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person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
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MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award ⓘ NIH Director’s New Innovator Award ⓘ NIH Director’s Pioneer Award ⓘ Sloan Research Fellowship ⓘ
linked to:
Sloan Research Fellowships
Technology Review TR35 Award ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralStudent | Tingting Wu ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cell biology
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chemical biology ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Peter G. Schultz ⓘ |
| hasORCID | 0000-0002-XXXX-XXXX ⓘ |
| hasResearchApproach |
chemical tool development for biology
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enzyme-catalyzed proximity labeling ⓘ genetically encoded protein tags ⓘ |
| knownFor |
APEX peroxidase-based proximity labeling
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BioID proximity labeling method ⓘ development of methods to label proteins in living cells ⓘ mapping organelle proteomes in situ ⓘ mapping protein–protein interactions in living cells ⓘ methods to map cellular interactions in living cells ⓘ proximity labeling technologies ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of APEX2 for electron microscopy and proteomics
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engineering of promiscuous biotin ligases for BioID ⓘ |
| occupation | chemical biologist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ professor at Stanford University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
live-cell imaging
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neural circuit mapping ⓘ protein labeling in living cells ⓘ spatiotemporal proteomics ⓘ synaptic biology ⓘ |
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: Alice Y. Ting Description of subject: Alice Y. Ting is a chemical biologist known for pioneering methods to label and map proteins and cellular interactions in living cells.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.