Nancy Kanwisher
E420077
Nancy Kanwisher is a cognitive neuroscientist renowned for her pioneering work on the functional organization of the human brain, particularly in visual perception and face recognition.
All labels observed (1)
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| Nancy Kanwisher canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4193495 — 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: Nancy Kanwisher Context triple: [Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, notableRecipient, Nancy Kanwisher]
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A.
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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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.
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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D.
Barbara Picower
Barbara Picower is an American philanthropist best known for leading major charitable initiatives and foundations, particularly in the wake of her late husband Jeffry Picower’s involvement in the Madoff scandal.
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E.
Patricia Churchland
Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher renowned for her pioneering work in neurophilosophy, exploring how neuroscience informs and reshapes traditional questions in philosophy of mind and ethics.
- 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: Nancy Kanwisher Target entity description: Nancy Kanwisher is a cognitive neuroscientist renowned for her pioneering work on the functional organization of the human brain, particularly in visual perception and face recognition.
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A.
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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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.
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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D.
Barbara Picower
Barbara Picower is an American philanthropist best known for leading major charitable initiatives and foundations, particularly in the wake of her late husband Jeffry Picower’s involvement in the Madoff scandal.
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E.
Patricia Churchland
Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher renowned for her pioneering work in neurophilosophy, exploring how neuroscience informs and reshapes traditional questions in philosophy of mind and ethics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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cognitive neuroscientist ⓘ human ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in psychology ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MacArthur Fellowship
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National Academy of Sciences membership ⓘ Troland Research Award ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Stephen Kosslyn ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cognitive neuroscience
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face perception ⓘ functional neuroimaging ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ psychology ⓘ vision science ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
papers on extrastriate body area
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papers on fusiform face area ⓘ papers on parahippocampal place area ⓘ |
| hasResearchApproach |
behavioral experiments
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functional magnetic resonance imaging ⓘ neuropsychological studies ⓘ |
| hasRole | principal investigator at McGovern Institute for Brain Research ⓘ |
| knownFor |
discovery and characterization of the fusiform face area
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research on category-selective regions in visual cortex ⓘ research on face recognition ⓘ research on functional organization of the human brain ⓘ research on visual perception ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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| notableStudent |
Kalanit Grill-Spector
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Rebecca Saxe ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
modularity of mind
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neural basis of social perception ⓘ specialized cortical regions ⓘ |
| studies |
face-selective brain regions
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neural basis of perception ⓘ object recognition ⓘ visual cortex ⓘ |
| workplace | McGovern Institute for Brain Research ⓘ |
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: Nancy Kanwisher Description of subject: Nancy Kanwisher is a cognitive neuroscientist renowned for her pioneering work on the functional organization of the human brain, particularly in visual perception and face recognition.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.