Jill P. Mesirov
E157411
Jill P. Mesirov is an American mathematician and computational biologist known for her work in bioinformatics and leadership roles in data science within academia and industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jill P. Mesirov canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1383060 — 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: Jill P. Mesirov Context triple: [Emmy Noether Lecture, hasNotableLecturer, Jill P. Mesirov]
-
A.
Susan R. Wente
Susan R. Wente is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Wake Forest University.
-
B.
Marianne Giaever
Marianne Giaever is known primarily as the daughter of Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
-
C.
Anne Wojcicki
Anne Wojcicki is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe.
-
D.
Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory is an American plant biologist renowned for her pioneering work on how plants sense and respond to their environment, particularly light, and for her contributions to sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation.
-
E.
Janet Wojcicki
Janet Wojcicki is an American epidemiologist and academic researcher known for her work in public health and nutrition.
- 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: Jill P. Mesirov Target entity description: Jill P. Mesirov is an American mathematician and computational biologist known for her work in bioinformatics and leadership roles in data science within academia and industry.
-
A.
Susan R. Wente
Susan R. Wente is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Wake Forest University.
-
B.
Marianne Giaever
Marianne Giaever is known primarily as the daughter of Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
-
C.
Anne Wojcicki
Anne Wojcicki is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe.
-
D.
Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory is an American plant biologist renowned for her pioneering work on how plants sense and respond to their environment, particularly light, and for her contributions to sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation.
-
E.
Janet Wojcicki
Janet Wojcicki is an American epidemiologist and academic researcher known for her work in public health and nutrition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American scientist
ⓘ
bioinformatician ⓘ computational biologist ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
ⓘ
Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Boston University ⓘ |
| employer |
Boston University
ⓘ
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ⓘ
surface form:
Broad Institute
IBM ⓘ University of California, San Diego ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | mathematics ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
cancer genomics ⓘ computational biology ⓘ data science ⓘ genomics ⓘ machine learning ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
biostatistics
ⓘ
computational medicine ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bioinformatics
ⓘ
computational genomics ⓘ data science leadership ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Association for the Advancement of Science
ⓘ
International Society for Computational Biology ⓘ |
| notableFor | integrating computational methods into clinical and translational research ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of Gene Set Enrichment Analysis methods
ⓘ
development of computational tools for cancer genomics ⓘ leadership in large-scale genomic data analysis ⓘ |
| occupation |
executive in industry
ⓘ
research scientist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer at the Broad Institute
ⓘ
Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences at UC San Diego ⓘ Chief Data Officer for Health Sciences at UC San Diego ⓘ Director of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Broad Institute ⓘ Manager of Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM ⓘ Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego ⓘ Vice President for Research at IBM ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
San Diego ⓘ Yorktown, New York ⓘ
surface form:
Yorktown Heights, New York
|
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: Jill P. Mesirov Description of subject: Jill P. Mesirov is an American mathematician and computational biologist known for her work in bioinformatics and leadership roles in data science within academia and industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.