Eric Lander
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geneticist
government official
human
mathematician
molecular biologist
science administrator
university teacher
Eric Lander is an American geneticist and mathematician best known as a principal leader of the Human Genome Project and a founding director of the Broad Institute.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Lander canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4428365 — 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: Eric Lander Context triple: [James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, hasNotableRecipient, Eric Lander]
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A.
Francis Collins
Francis Collins is an American physician-geneticist best known for leading the Human Genome Project and serving as director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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B.
Jill P. Mesirov
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.
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C.
Joseph C. Tsai
Joseph C. Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, and principal owner of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise.
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D.
Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead is an American basketball coach known for his fast-paced "run-and-gun" offensive style and for winning championships in both the NBA and WNBA.
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E.
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist renowned as a founder of paleogenomics, best known for sequencing the Neanderthal genome and advancing the study of human evolution.
- 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: Eric Lander Target entity description: Eric Lander is an American geneticist and mathematician best known as a principal leader of the Human Genome Project and a founding director of the Broad Institute.
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A.
Francis Collins
Francis Collins is an American physician-geneticist best known for leading the Human Genome Project and serving as director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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B.
Jill P. Mesirov
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.
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C.
Joseph C. Tsai
Joseph C. Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, and principal owner of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise.
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D.
Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead is an American basketball coach known for his fast-paced "run-and-gun" offensive style and for winning championships in both the NBA and WNBA.
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E.
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist renowned as a founder of paleogenomics, best known for sequencing the Neanderthal genome and advancing the study of human evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geneticist
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government official ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ molecular biologist ⓘ science administrator ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics
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DPhil in mathematics ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | biomedical research policy in the United States ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Albany Medical Center Prize
NERFINISHED
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Gairdner Foundation International Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment NERFINISHED ⓘ MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton University
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| employer |
Broad Institute
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University ⓘ Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computational biology
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genetics ⓘ genomics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society ⓘ Institute of Medicine of the National Academies NERFINISHED ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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| name | Eric Lander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding director role at the Broad Institute
ⓘ
leadership of the Human Genome Project ⓘ |
| notableWork |
contributions to the Human Genome Project
ⓘ
development of methods for genome mapping and analysis ⓘ founding and leadership of the Broad Institute ⓘ |
| occupation |
geneticist
ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ professor ⓘ science administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the United States
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co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology ⓘ founding director of the Broad Institute ⓘ president and founding director of the Broad Institute ⓘ professor of biology at MIT ⓘ professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School ⓘ |
| residence | Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Eric Lander Description of subject: Eric Lander is an American geneticist and mathematician best known as a principal leader of the Human Genome Project and a founding director of the Broad Institute.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.