Agre
E896845
Nobel Prize
Nobel laureate in Chemistry
aquaporin
chemist
family name
human
membrane protein
physician
surname
water channel protein
Agre is the surname of Peter Agre, an American physician and Nobel Prize–winning chemist known for discovering aquaporins, the water channels in cell membranes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Agre canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10973772 — 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: Agre Context triple: [Peter Agre, familyName, Agre]
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A.
Agarfa
Agarfa is a town and district in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, situated within the Bale Zone and known for its agricultural and pastoral communities.
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B.
Alajeró
Alajeró is a small coastal and rural municipality on the island of La Gomera in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its rugged landscapes and traditional Canarian character.
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C.
Ascó
Ascó is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain, best known for hosting one of the country’s major nuclear power plants along the Ebro River.
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D.
Mesta
Mesta is a well-preserved medieval fortified village on the Greek island of Chios, known for its maze-like streets and traditional stone architecture.
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E.
Algete
Algete is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain, located to the north of the capital and characterized by its mix of residential areas and surrounding agricultural land.
- 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: Agre Target entity description: Agre is the surname of Peter Agre, an American physician and Nobel Prize–winning chemist known for discovering aquaporins, the water channels in cell membranes.
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A.
Agarfa
Agarfa is a town and district in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, situated within the Bale Zone and known for its agricultural and pastoral communities.
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B.
Alajeró
Alajeró is a small coastal and rural municipality on the island of La Gomera in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its rugged landscapes and traditional Canarian character.
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C.
Ascó
Ascó is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain, best known for hosting one of the country’s major nuclear power plants along the Ebro River.
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D.
Mesta
Mesta is a well-preserved medieval fortified village on the Greek island of Chios, known for its maze-like streets and traditional stone architecture.
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E.
Algete
Algete is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain, located to the north of the capital and characterized by its mix of residential areas and surrounding agricultural land.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel Prize
ⓘ
Nobel laureate in Chemistry ⓘ aquaporin ⓘ chemist ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ membrane protein ⓘ physician ⓘ surname ⓘ water channel protein ⓘ |
| awardFor | outstanding contributions in chemistry ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| discovered |
Aquaporin-1
ⓘ
aquaporins ⓘ |
| familyName | Agre ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
ⓘ
chemistry ⓘ medicine ⓘ |
| foundIn |
cell membrane
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kidney proximal tubules ⓘ red blood cells ⓘ |
| function |
facilitated transport of water across cell membranes
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water transport ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| knownFor |
discovery of aquaporins
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research on water channels in cell membranes ⓘ |
| notableWork | identification of aquaporin-1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
chemist
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
| usedBy | Peter Agre ⓘ |
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: Agre Description of subject: Agre is the surname of Peter Agre, an American physician and Nobel Prize–winning chemist known for discovering aquaporins, the water channels in cell membranes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Agre