Stanley N. Cohen
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Stanley N. Cohen is an American geneticist and a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology, best known for co-developing methods to clone and manipulate DNA in bacteria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stanley N. Cohen canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2370896 — 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: Stanley N. Cohen Context triple: [Herbert Boyer, notableStudentOrCollaborator, Stanley N. Cohen]
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Herbert Boyer
Herbert Boyer is an American biochemist and genetic engineer renowned as a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology and a co-founder of the biotechnology company Genentech.
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B.
J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
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C.
Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the interaction between viruses and the genetic material of cells, which advanced the understanding of cancer.
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D.
Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
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Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
- 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: Stanley N. Cohen Target entity description: Stanley N. Cohen is an American geneticist and a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology, best known for co-developing methods to clone and manipulate DNA in bacteria.
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A.
Herbert Boyer
Herbert Boyer is an American biochemist and genetic engineer renowned as a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology and a co-founder of the biotechnology company Genentech.
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B.
J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
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C.
Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the interaction between viruses and the genetic material of cells, which advanced the understanding of cancer.
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D.
Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
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E.
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geneticist
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human ⓘ molecular biologist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree | M.D. ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
biomedicine
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biotechnology ⓘ pharmaceutical research ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
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National Medal of Science ⓘ Wolf Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Wolf Prize in Medicine
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| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Herbert Boyer
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surface form:
Herbert W. Boyer
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| collaboratedWith |
Herbert Boyer
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surface form:
Herbert W. Boyer
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Rutgers University
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Cohen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
genetics
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molecular biology ⓘ recombinant DNA technology ⓘ |
| givenName | Stanley ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
geneticist
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physician ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| influenced |
biotechnology industry
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genetic engineering ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Cohen–Boyer recombinant DNA patents
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development of DNA cloning methods in bacteria ⓘ pioneering recombinant DNA technology ⓘ plasmid-based cloning ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Academy of Medicine
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surface form:
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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| name | Stanley N. Cohen self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
recombinant DNA methodology
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use of plasmids as cloning vectors ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of plasmid vectors for gene cloning
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experiments demonstrating cloning of foreign DNA in Escherichia coli ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor of genetics
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professor of medicine ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Palo Alto, California
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surface form:
Palo Alto
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| workplace |
Stanford Medicine
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surface form:
Stanford University School of Medicine
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Stanley N. Cohen Description of subject: Stanley N. Cohen is an American geneticist and a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology, best known for co-developing methods to clone and manipulate DNA in bacteria.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.