McClintock
E3532
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McClintock canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T26971 — 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: McClintock Context triple: [Barbara McClintock, familyName, McClintock]
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A.
Moore
Moore is the middle name of Edward M. Kennedy, the long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and prominent member of the Kennedy political family.
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B.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Nelson
Nelson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, entertainment, and academia.
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D.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
- 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: McClintock Target entity description: McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
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A.
Moore
Moore is the middle name of Edward M. Kennedy, the long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and prominent member of the Kennedy political family.
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B.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Nelson
Nelson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, entertainment, and academia.
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D.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Lawrence
Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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cytogeneticist ⓘ family name ⓘ geneticist ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MacArthur Fellowship
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National Medal of Science ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| discovered | genetic transposition ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Cornell University ⓘ |
| familyName | McClintock self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cytogenetics
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genetics ⓘ |
| givenName | Barbara ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Barbara McClintock ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Academy of Sciences
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surface form:
National Academy of Sciences (United States)
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| notableFor | discovery of genetic transposition ⓘ |
| occupation |
scientist
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university teacher ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| studied | maize genetics ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ⓘ |
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: McClintock Description of subject: McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Barbara McClintock