Esther Lederberg
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Esther Lederberg was an American microbiologist and geneticist renowned for her pioneering work in bacterial genetics, including the discovery of the lambda phage and the development of replica plating.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Esther Lederberg canonical | 2 |
| Lederberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6934321 — 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: Esther Lederberg Context triple: [Phage Group, hasMember, Esther Lederberg]
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A.
Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work in bacterial genetics, which earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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B.
Esther Ehrlich
Esther Ehrlich is an author best known for her critically acclaimed debut novel "Nest," a middle-grade work exploring family, illness, and resilience.
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C.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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D.
Shelley Levene
Shelley Levene is a desperate, aging real estate salesman whose mounting failures and moral compromises drive much of the tension in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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E.
Shirley Blumberg
Shirley Blumberg is a Canadian architect and co-founder of the acclaimed Toronto-based firm KPMB Architects, recognized for her contributions to contemporary urban and cultural architecture.
- 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: Esther Lederberg Target entity description: Esther Lederberg was an American microbiologist and geneticist renowned for her pioneering work in bacterial genetics, including the discovery of the lambda phage and the development of replica plating.
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A.
Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work in bacterial genetics, which earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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B.
Esther Ehrlich
Esther Ehrlich is an author best known for her critically acclaimed debut novel "Nest," a middle-grade work exploring family, illness, and resilience.
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C.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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D.
Shelley Levene
Shelley Levene is a desperate, aging real estate salesman whose mounting failures and moral compromises drive much of the tension in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross."
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E.
Shirley Blumberg
Shirley Blumberg is a Canadian architect and co-founder of the acclaimed Toronto-based firm KPMB Architects, recognized for her contributions to contemporary urban and cultural architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geneticist
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human ⓘ microbiologist ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| coInvented | replica plating with Joshua Lederberg ⓘ |
| contributedTo | understanding of transduction in bacteria ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-12-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-11-11 ⓘ |
| developed | replica plating technique ⓘ |
| discovered | bacteriophage lambda ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hunter College
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Stanford University ⓘ University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jewish American
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linked to:
Jewish Americans
|
| familyName |
Lederberg
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linked to:
Esther Lederberg
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| fieldOfWork |
bacterial genetics
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genetics ⓘ microbiology ⓘ |
| givenName | Esther ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Edward Tatum ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of replica plating
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discovery of bacteriophage lambda ⓘ pioneering work in bacterial genetics ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | faculty of Stanford University ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Norton Zinder ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of replica plating technique
ⓘ
discovery of lambda phage ⓘ |
| occupation |
geneticist
ⓘ
microbiologist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
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The Bronx ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Stanford ⓘ
linked to:
Stanford University
|
| receivedDegree | PhD in microbiology ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
bacterial recombination
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bacteriophages ⓘ lysogeny ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Joshua Lederberg ⓘ |
| studied | Escherichia coli ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Stanford University
ⓘ
University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
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: Esther Lederberg Description of subject: Esther Lederberg was an American microbiologist and geneticist renowned for her pioneering work in bacterial genetics, including the discovery of the lambda phage and the development of replica plating.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Esther Lederberg