Carl Djerassi
E130681
Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-American chemist best known for his pioneering role in the development of the first oral contraceptive pill.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carl Djerassi canonical | 18 |
| Gregory Pincus | 3 |
| Carl Djerassi is a chemist | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1135732 — 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: Carl Djerassi Context triple: [Priestley Medal, hasRecipient, Carl Djerassi]
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Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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B.
Robert Upshur Woodward
Robert Upshur Woodward is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post.
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C.
David Hirschfelder
David Hirschfelder is an Australian composer and musician best known for his acclaimed film scores and work on major international movies.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: Carl Djerassi Target entity description: Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-American chemist best known for his pioneering role in the development of the first oral contraceptive pill.
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A.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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B.
Robert Upshur Woodward
Robert Upshur Woodward is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post.
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C.
David Hirschfelder
David Hirschfelder is an Australian composer and musician best known for his acclaimed film scores and work on major international movies.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Carl Djerassi Description of subject: Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-American chemist best known for his pioneering role in the development of the first oral contraceptive pill.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Carl Djerassi
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novel "NO"
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novel "NO"
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play "An Immaculate Misconception"
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play "An Immaculate Misconception"
subject linked to:
play "An Immaculate Misconception"
subject linked to:
Djerassi
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novel "Cantor’s Dilemma"
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novel "Cantor’s Dilemma"
linked to: Carl Djerassi
linked to: Carl Djerassi
linked to: Carl Djerassi