Ruth Arnon
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Ruth Arnon is an Israeli biochemist best known as a co-developer of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone and a prominent figure in immunology research.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth Arnon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2078894 — 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: Ruth Arnon Context triple: [Israel Prize in Chemistry and Physics, hasNotableLaureates, Ruth Arnon]
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A.
Ruth Weinstein
Ruth Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced American film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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B.
Helene Shapiro
Helene Shapiro is an American mathematician known for her work in linear algebra and matrix theory, and as a student of Olga Taussky-Todd.
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C.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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D.
Maria Nuzberg
Maria Nuzberg was the wife of Vasily Stalin, the son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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E.
Dorothy Herzka
Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
- 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: Ruth Arnon Target entity description: Ruth Arnon is an Israeli biochemist best known as a co-developer of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone and a prominent figure in immunology research.
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A.
Ruth Weinstein
Ruth Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced American film producer Harvey Weinstein.
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B.
Helene Shapiro
Helene Shapiro is an American mathematician known for her work in linear algebra and matrix theory, and as a student of Olga Taussky-Todd.
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C.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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D.
Maria Nuzberg
Maria Nuzberg was the wife of Vasily Stalin, the son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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E.
Dorothy Herzka
Dorothy Herzka is an American art professional best known as the wife and longtime partner of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, with whom she was deeply involved in the contemporary art world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Israeli scientist
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biochemist ⓘ human ⓘ immunologist ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
MSc in chemistry
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PhD in biochemistry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
AESKU Prize for Life Contribution to Autoimmunity
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EMET Prize ⓘ
surface form:
EMET Prize in Life Sciences
Israel Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Israel Prize in Medical Research
Robert Koch Prize ⓘ Rothschild Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Rothschild Prize in Biology
Wolf Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Wolf Prize in Medicine
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| coDeveloperOf | Copaxone ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Dvora Teitelbaum
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Michael Sela ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-06-01 ⓘ |
| developedDrugFor | multiple sclerosis ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Michael Sela ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hebrew University of Jerusalem ⓘ |
| employer | Weizmann Institute of Science ⓘ |
| familyName | Arnon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
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immunology ⓘ multiple sclerosis research ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth ⓘ |
| hasPublicationType |
review article
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scientific article ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-development of Copaxone
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research on multiple sclerosis ⓘ research on synthetic antigens ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society ⓘ European Molecular Biology Organization ⓘ Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities ⓘ |
| name | Ruth Arnon self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of synthetic copolymer 1 (glatiramer acetate) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tel Aviv ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Head of Department of Chemical Immunology at Weizmann Institute of Science
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President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities ⓘ Professor at Weizmann Institute of Science ⓘ Vice President of Weizmann Institute of Science ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
autoimmune diseases
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synthetic polymers as antigens ⓘ vaccine development ⓘ |
| workplace | Weizmann Institute of Science ⓘ |
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: Ruth Arnon Description of subject: Ruth Arnon is an Israeli biochemist best known as a co-developer of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone and a prominent figure in immunology research.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.