Djerassi
E553340
Austrian-American person
art collector
artists residency program
chemist
novelist
playwright
surname
writer
Djerassi is a surname most prominently associated with Carl Djerassi, the chemist known as a co-inventor of the oral contraceptive pill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Djerassi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5878357 — 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: Djerassi Context triple: [Carl Djerassi, familyName, Djerassi]
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A.
Redon
Redon is a French surname most notably associated with the Symbolist painter and printmaker Odilon Redon.
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B.
Redon
Redon is a small historic town in western France known for its canal junction and medieval abbey, situated near the borders of Brittany and Pays de la Loire.
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C.
Boustany
Boustany is a surname of Lebanese origin notably associated with several prominent political and professional families, particularly in the United States and Lebanon.
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D.
Djuna
Djuna is a distinctive given name most famously associated with the modernist writer and artist Djuna Barnes.
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E.
Bernal
Bernal is a Spanish given name most famously borne by the conquistador and chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo, known for his detailed account of the conquest of Mexico.
- 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: Djerassi Target entity description: Djerassi is a surname most prominently associated with Carl Djerassi, the chemist known as a co-inventor of the oral contraceptive pill.
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A.
Redon
Redon is a French surname most notably associated with the Symbolist painter and printmaker Odilon Redon.
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B.
Redon
Redon is a small historic town in western France known for its canal junction and medieval abbey, situated near the borders of Brittany and Pays de la Loire.
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C.
Boustany
Boustany is a surname of Lebanese origin notably associated with several prominent political and professional families, particularly in the United States and Lebanon.
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D.
Djuna
Djuna is a distinctive given name most famously associated with the modernist writer and artist Djuna Barnes.
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E.
Bernal
Bernal is a Spanish given name most famously borne by the conquistador and chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo, known for his detailed account of the conquest of Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austrian-American person
ⓘ
art collector ⓘ artists residency program ⓘ chemist ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ surname ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Austria
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfBirth | Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-10-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-01-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Gymnasium in Sofia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer |
Stanford University
ⓘ
Syntex NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Djerassi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
organic chemistry
ⓘ
steroid chemistry ⓘ |
| founded | Djerassi Resident Artists Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science-in-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Carl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
National Medal of Science
NERFINISHED
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National Medal of Technology and Innovation NERFINISHED ⓘ Perkin Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Priestley Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolf Prize in Chemistry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Carl Djerassi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariantTransliteration | Džerasi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-invention of the oral contraceptive pill
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synthesis of norethindrone ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Bulgarian
ⓘ
Ladino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | San Mateo County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Carl Djerassi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An Immaculate Misconception
NERFINISHED
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Cantor’s Dilemma NERFINISHED ⓘ Djerassi–Roche reaction NERFINISHED ⓘ NO ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Francisco 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: Djerassi Description of subject: Djerassi is a surname most prominently associated with Carl Djerassi, the chemist known as a co-inventor of the oral contraceptive pill.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.