May-Britt
E140429
May-Britt is the given name of Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel laureate May-Britt Moser.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1229617 — 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: May-Britt Context triple: [May-Britt Moser, givenName, May-Britt]
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A.
Joan E. Donoghue
Joan E. Donoghue is an American jurist and former judge of the International Court of Justice who served as its president, becoming one of the most prominent contemporary figures in international law.
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B.
Anna M. Kross
Anna M. Kross was a pioneering New York City jurist and reformer who served as the city’s first female Commissioner of Correction and advocated for more humane treatment of incarcerated people.
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C.
Ann Graybiel
Ann Graybiel is a renowned neuroscientist known for her pioneering research on the basal ganglia and its role in habit formation and movement control.
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D.
Hope Jahren
Hope Jahren is an American geochemist, geobiologist, and author best known for her memoir "Lab Girl" and her research on plant science and the history of the Earth’s climate.
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E.
Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson was an early American silent film actress and writer, best known for her work in pioneering films of the 1900s and her association with director D. W. Griffith.
- 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: May-Britt Target entity description: May-Britt is the given name of Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel laureate May-Britt Moser.
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A.
Joan E. Donoghue
Joan E. Donoghue is an American jurist and former judge of the International Court of Justice who served as its president, becoming one of the most prominent contemporary figures in international law.
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B.
Anna M. Kross
Anna M. Kross was a pioneering New York City jurist and reformer who served as the city’s first female Commissioner of Correction and advocated for more humane treatment of incarcerated people.
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C.
Ann Graybiel
Ann Graybiel is a renowned neuroscientist known for her pioneering research on the basal ganglia and its role in habit formation and movement control.
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D.
Hope Jahren
Hope Jahren is an American geochemist, geobiologist, and author best known for her memoir "Lab Girl" and her research on plant science and the history of the Earth’s climate.
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E.
Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson was an early American silent film actress and writer, best known for her work in pioneering films of the 1900s and her association with director D. W. Griffith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
compound given name
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feminine given name ⓘ given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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neuroscience ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Britt
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May ⓘ |
| hasGender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasNameDayCountry | Norway ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | May-Britt Moser ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Norway ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | Norwegian ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: May-Britt Description of subject: May-Britt is the given name of Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel laureate May-Britt Moser.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.