Hans Krebs
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Hans Krebs was a German-born British biochemist best known for elucidating the citric acid (Krebs) cycle, a central pathway in cellular respiration.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hans Adolf Krebs | 2 |
| Hans Krebs canonical | 1 |
| Sir Hans Krebs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5116851 — 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: Hans Krebs Context triple: [Otto Warburg Medal, notableRecipient, Hans Krebs]
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Fritz Lipmann
Fritz Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering coenzyme A and elucidating its central role in cellular metabolism.
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Emil Warburg
Emil Warburg was a prominent German physicist known for his influential work in thermodynamics, gas discharges, and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Otto Warburg
Otto Warburg was a German physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on cellular respiration and cancer metabolism, particularly the discovery of the "Warburg effect."
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Conrad Elvehjem
Conrad Elvehjem was an American biochemist best known for identifying niacin as the pellagra-preventing vitamin and for his contributions to nutritional science.
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Hans Kehrl
Hans Kehrl was a German economist and industrial manager who became a prominent Nazi official involved in economic planning and armaments production during the Third Reich.
- 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: Hans Krebs Target entity description: Hans Krebs was a German-born British biochemist best known for elucidating the citric acid (Krebs) cycle, a central pathway in cellular respiration.
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A.
Fritz Lipmann
Fritz Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering coenzyme A and elucidating its central role in cellular metabolism.
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B.
Emil Warburg
Emil Warburg was a prominent German physicist known for his influential work in thermodynamics, gas discharges, and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Otto Warburg
Otto Warburg was a German physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on cellular respiration and cancer metabolism, particularly the discovery of the "Warburg effect."
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D.
Conrad Elvehjem
Conrad Elvehjem was an American biochemist best known for identifying niacin as the pellagra-preventing vitamin and for his contributions to nutritional science.
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E.
Hans Kehrl
Hans Kehrl was a German economist and industrial manager who became a prominent Nazi official involved in economic planning and armaments production during the Third Reich.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Hans Krebs Description of subject: Hans Krebs was a German-born British biochemist best known for elucidating the citric acid (Krebs) cycle, a central pathway in cellular respiration.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hans Krebs
linked to: Hans Krebs
linked to: Hans Krebs