John Fenn
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John Fenn was an 18th-century English antiquary best known for publishing and editing the medieval Paston Letters, an important collection of family correspondence from the Wars of the Roses period.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18512283 — 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: John Fenn Context triple: [Paston Letters, editor, John Fenn]
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John B. Fenn
John B. Fenn was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing electrospray ionization, a groundbreaking technique in mass spectrometry that revolutionized the analysis of large biomolecules.
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R. B. Merrifield
R. B. Merrifield was an American biochemist best known for developing solid-phase peptide synthesis, a breakthrough method that revolutionized the field of peptide and protein chemistry.
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Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
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Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank is a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering cryo-electron microscopy techniques that revolutionized the visualization of biomolecules.
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E.
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.
- 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: John Fenn Target entity description: John Fenn was an 18th-century English antiquary best known for publishing and editing the medieval Paston Letters, an important collection of family correspondence from the Wars of the Roses period.
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A.
John B. Fenn
John B. Fenn was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing electrospray ionization, a groundbreaking technique in mass spectrometry that revolutionized the analysis of large biomolecules.
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B.
R. B. Merrifield
R. B. Merrifield was an American biochemist best known for developing solid-phase peptide synthesis, a breakthrough method that revolutionized the field of peptide and protein chemistry.
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C.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
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D.
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank is a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering cryo-electron microscopy techniques that revolutionized the visualization of biomolecules.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
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