Richard R. Schrock
E95049
Richard R. Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on olefin metathesis and organometallic chemistry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard R. Schrock canonical | 13 |
| Richard Royce Schrock | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T673686 — 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: Richard R. Schrock Context triple: [ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, notableRecipient, Richard R. Schrock]
-
A.
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost is an American organic chemist renowned for pioneering the concept of atom economy and developing highly efficient catalytic reactions in synthetic chemistry.
-
B.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
-
C.
David W. C. MacMillan
David W. C. MacMillan is a Scottish-born chemist renowned for pioneering organocatalysis, work that earned him the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
-
D.
Elias J. Corey
Elias J. Corey is a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for pioneering the field of retrosynthetic analysis and revolutionizing modern organic synthesis.
-
E.
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as a founder of supramolecular chemistry for his pioneering work on molecular recognition and self-assembly.
- 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: Richard R. Schrock Target entity description: Richard R. Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on olefin metathesis and organometallic chemistry.
-
A.
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost is an American organic chemist renowned for pioneering the concept of atom economy and developing highly efficient catalytic reactions in synthetic chemistry.
-
B.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
-
C.
David W. C. MacMillan
David W. C. MacMillan is a Scottish-born chemist renowned for pioneering organocatalysis, work that earned him the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
-
D.
Elias J. Corey
Elias J. Corey is a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for pioneering the field of retrosynthetic analysis and revolutionizing modern organic synthesis.
-
E.
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as a founder of supramolecular chemistry for his pioneering work on molecular recognition and self-assembly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
ⓘ
chemist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry
ⓘ
PhD in Chemistry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
ⓘ
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award ⓘ F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry ⓘ Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Berne, Indiana, United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-01-04 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | John A. Osborn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
University of California, Riverside ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| era |
20th-century chemistry
ⓘ
21st-century chemistry ⓘ |
| familyName | Schrock ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
catalysis
ⓘ
chemistry ⓘ olefin metathesis ⓘ organometallic chemistry ⓘ |
| fullName |
Richard Royce Schrock
ⓘ
linked to:
Richard R. Schrock
|
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAffiliation | MIT Department of Chemistry ⓘ |
| hasDiscovered |
highly active molybdenum-based olefin metathesis catalysts
ⓘ
tungsten-based olefin metathesis catalysts ⓘ |
| influenced | development of metathesis in organic synthesis ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
ⓘ
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeMotivation | for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis ⓘ |
| notableConcept | Schrock carbene ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of well-defined molybdenum and tungsten alkylidene complexes
ⓘ
pioneering work on olefin metathesis ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Amir H. Hoveyda ⓘ |
| occupation |
research chemist
ⓘ
university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
ⓘ
Professor of Chemistry at MIT ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
design and synthesis of transition metal alkylidene complexes
ⓘ
mechanism of olefin metathesis ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesNobelPrizeWith |
Robert H. Grubbs
ⓘ
Yves Chauvin ⓘ |
| workplace | Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
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: Richard R. Schrock Description of subject: Richard R. Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on olefin metathesis and organometallic chemistry.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (through its scientists)
linked to: Richard R. Schrock
subject linked to:
Berne, Indiana, United States
subject linked to:
Grubbs