entorhinal cortex
E539573
The entorhinal cortex is a brain region in the medial temporal lobe crucial for memory, navigation, and serving as a major interface between the hippocampus and neocortex.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| entorhinal cortex canonical | 2 |
| lateral entorhinal cortex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5730700 — 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: entorhinal cortex Context triple: [Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, hasResearchFocus, entorhinal cortex]
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A.
hippocampus
The hippocampus is a key brain structure involved in forming and retrieving memories, spatial navigation, and regulating emotional responses.
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B.
cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is the brain’s highly folded outer layer responsible for complex functions such as perception, language, thought, and voluntary movement.
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C.
prefrontal cortex
The prefrontal cortex is the front part of the brain’s frontal lobes responsible for higher-order functions such as decision-making, attention, impulse control, and working memory.
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D.
Wernicke area
Wernicke area is a region of the human brain’s temporal lobe crucial for understanding spoken and written language.
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E.
RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium)
RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium) is a premotor song-control nucleus in the songbird brain that plays a key role in generating and learning vocalizations, particularly studied in species like the zebra finch.
- 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: entorhinal cortex Target entity description: The entorhinal cortex is a brain region in the medial temporal lobe crucial for memory, navigation, and serving as a major interface between the hippocampus and neocortex.
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A.
hippocampus
The hippocampus is a key brain structure involved in forming and retrieving memories, spatial navigation, and regulating emotional responses.
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B.
cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is the brain’s highly folded outer layer responsible for complex functions such as perception, language, thought, and voluntary movement.
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C.
prefrontal cortex
The prefrontal cortex is the front part of the brain’s frontal lobes responsible for higher-order functions such as decision-making, attention, impulse control, and working memory.
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D.
Wernicke area
Wernicke area is a region of the human brain’s temporal lobe crucial for understanding spoken and written language.
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E.
RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium)
RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium) is a premotor song-control nucleus in the songbird brain that plays a key role in generating and learning vocalizations, particularly studied in species like the zebra finch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brain region
ⓘ
cortical area ⓘ medial temporal lobe structure ⓘ |
| borders |
hippocampus
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parahippocampal cortex ⓘ perirhinal cortex ⓘ subiculum ⓘ |
| BroddmannArea |
Brodmann area 28
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Brodmann area 34 ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
CA1 region of hippocampus
ⓘ
CA3 region of hippocampus ⓘ dentate gyrus ⓘ hippocampus ⓘ neocortex ⓘ parahippocampal cortex ⓘ parietal cortex ⓘ perirhinal cortex ⓘ prefrontal cortex ⓘ subiculum ⓘ |
| contains |
border cells
ⓘ
grid cells ⓘ head direction cells ⓘ place-related cells ⓘ |
| cytoarchitectonicType |
allocortex
ⓘ
periallocortex ⓘ |
| firstAffectedIn | Alzheimer's disease ⓘ |
| forms | perforant path ⓘ |
| hasSubregion |
lateral entorhinal cortex
ⓘ
linked to:
entorhinal cortex
medial entorhinal cortex ⓘ |
| involvedIn | early Alzheimer-related memory impairment ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
human brain
ⓘ
mammalian brain ⓘ temporal lobe ⓘ |
| majorInputPathwayTo | hippocampus ⓘ |
| majorOutputPathwayFrom | hippocampus ⓘ |
| partOf |
cerebral cortex
ⓘ
limbic system ⓘ
linked to:
Limbic system
medial temporal lobe ⓘ |
| receivesInputFrom |
amygdala
ⓘ
olfactory cortex ⓘ |
| roleIn |
associative learning
ⓘ
cognitive mapping ⓘ context representation ⓘ episodic memory ⓘ memory consolidation ⓘ navigation ⓘ spatial memory ⓘ |
| sendsOutputTo |
hippocampal formation
ⓘ
linked to:
hippocampus
neocortex ⓘ |
| speciesPresentIn |
humans
ⓘ
primates ⓘ rodents ⓘ |
| vulnerableTo |
Alzheimer's pathology
ⓘ
tau pathology ⓘ |
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: entorhinal cortex Description of subject: The entorhinal cortex is a brain region in the medial temporal lobe crucial for memory, navigation, and serving as a major interface between the hippocampus and neocortex.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: entorhinal cortex