François Jacob
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François Jacob was a French biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the operon model.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| François Jacob canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6934314 — 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: François Jacob Context triple: [Phage Group, hasMember, François Jacob]
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A.
Jacques Monod
Jacques Monod was a French biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the lac operon.
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B.
André Lwoff
André Lwoff was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and life cycle of viruses and bacteria.
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C.
Jean-Marie Charpentier
Jean-Marie Charpentier was a French architect and urban planner known for his influential work in China and for founding the architecture firm Arte Charpentier.
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D.
Al Charpentier
Al Charpentier is an engineer best known for his key role in developing the Commodore 64 home computer.
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E.
Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer was an influential American molecular biologist and neuroscientist whose pioneering work in gene mapping and the genetic basis of behavior helped establish modern neurogenetics.
- 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: François Jacob Target entity description: François Jacob was a French biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the operon model.
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A.
Jacques Monod
Jacques Monod was a French biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the lac operon.
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B.
André Lwoff
André Lwoff was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and life cycle of viruses and bacteria.
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C.
Jean-Marie Charpentier
Jean-Marie Charpentier was a French architect and urban planner known for his influential work in China and for founding the architecture firm Arte Charpentier.
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D.
Al Charpentier
Al Charpentier is an engineer best known for his key role in developing the Commodore 64 home computer.
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E.
Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer was an influential American molecular biologist and neuroscientist whose pioneering work in gene mapping and the genetic basis of behavior helped establish modern neurogenetics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: François Jacob Description of subject: François Jacob was a French biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the operon model.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.