Peter Hagoort
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Peter Hagoort is a prominent Dutch cognitive neuroscientist known for his influential research on the neural basis of language and his leadership in the field of psycholinguistics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Hagoort canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5636754 — 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: Peter Hagoort Context triple: [Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, director, Peter Hagoort]
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A.
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello is an American developmental and comparative psychologist known for his influential research on child language acquisition, social cognition, and the evolution of human cooperation.
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B.
Joost W. C. Boks
Joost W. C. Boks was a Dutch architect best known for designing the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia, a postwar monument symbolizing Dutch-American friendship.
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C.
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on generative grammar, the interface between syntax and semantics, and the architecture of the language faculty.
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D.
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns is a neuroscientist known for his pioneering work in network neuroscience and the study of brain connectivity.
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E.
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene is a French cognitive neuroscientist renowned for his research on numerical cognition, consciousness, and the neural basis of reading and learning.
- 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: Peter Hagoort Target entity description: Peter Hagoort is a prominent Dutch cognitive neuroscientist known for his influential research on the neural basis of language and his leadership in the field of psycholinguistics.
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A.
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello is an American developmental and comparative psychologist known for his influential research on child language acquisition, social cognition, and the evolution of human cooperation.
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B.
Joost W. C. Boks
Joost W. C. Boks was a Dutch architect best known for designing the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia, a postwar monument symbolizing Dutch-American friendship.
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C.
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on generative grammar, the interface between syntax and semantics, and the architecture of the language faculty.
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D.
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns is a neuroscientist known for his pioneering work in network neuroscience and the study of brain connectivity.
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E.
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene is a French cognitive neuroscientist renowned for his research on numerical cognition, consciousness, and the neural basis of reading and learning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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cognitive neuroscientist ⓘ psycholinguist ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Netherlands ⓘ |
| employer |
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
NERFINISHED
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics NERFINISHED ⓘ Radboud University Nijmegen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cognitive neuroscience
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language processing ⓘ neuroimaging ⓘ neuroscience of language ⓘ psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
cognitive science
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linguistics ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ |
| influenced |
models of language comprehension in the brain
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research on neurobiology of language ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership in psycholinguistics
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research on language comprehension ⓘ research on language production ⓘ research on the neural basis of language ⓘ work on the unification model of language ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Dutch
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English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Dutch scientific community ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on integration of syntax and semantics in the brain
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studies on Broca’s area and language ⓘ theory of unification operations in language processing ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
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director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ⓘ professor of cognitive neuroscience at Radboud University Nijmegen ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
brain mechanisms of language comprehension
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functional neuroimaging of language ⓘ language-related brain networks ⓘ semantics ⓘ syntax ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
behavioral psycholinguistic experiments
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electroencephalography ⓘ functional magnetic resonance imaging ⓘ magnetoencephalography ⓘ |
| workLocation | Nijmegen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Peter Hagoort Description of subject: Peter Hagoort is a prominent Dutch cognitive neuroscientist known for his influential research on the neural basis of language and his leadership in the field of psycholinguistics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.