Laveran
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Laveran is the surname of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, the French physician and Nobel laureate who discovered the parasite responsible for malaria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laveran canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7036460 — 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: Laveran Context triple: [Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, familyName, Laveran]
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A.
Reville
Reville is an English surname most notably associated with Alma Reville, a film editor and screenwriter who collaborated closely with her husband, director Alfred Hitchcock.
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B.
Yassa
Yassa was the codified legal and administrative code traditionally attributed to Genghis Khan that governed the Mongol Empire and its successor states.
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C.
Iéna
Iéna is a Paris Métro station in the 16th arrondissement, located near landmarks such as the Palais de Tokyo and the Trocadéro.
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D.
La Praille
La Praille is an urban district in the municipality of Lancy, near Geneva, known for its commercial centers, stadium, and mixed-use developments.
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E.
Makouda
Makouda is a town and commune located in northern Algeria within the Kabylie region.
- 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: Laveran Target entity description: Laveran is the surname of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, the French physician and Nobel laureate who discovered the parasite responsible for malaria.
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A.
Reville
Reville is an English surname most notably associated with Alma Reville, a film editor and screenwriter who collaborated closely with her husband, director Alfred Hitchcock.
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B.
Yassa
Yassa was the codified legal and administrative code traditionally attributed to Genghis Khan that governed the Mongol Empire and its successor states.
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C.
Iéna
Iéna is a Paris Métro station in the 16th arrondissement, located near landmarks such as the Palais de Tokyo and the Trocadéro.
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D.
La Praille
La Praille is an urban district in the municipality of Lancy, near Geneva, known for its commercial centers, stadium, and mixed-use developments.
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E.
Makouda
Makouda is a town and commune located in northern Algeria within the Kabylie region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
ⓘ
human ⓘ parasitologist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1845-06-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1922-05-18 ⓘ |
| discovered | Plasmodium as the causative agent of malaria ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Strasbourg
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École de Santé Militaire de Strasbourg ⓘ |
| employer |
French Army
ⓘ
Pasteur Institute ⓘ
linked to:
Institut Pasteur
|
| familyName | Laveran ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
ⓘ
parasitology ⓘ tropical medicine ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alphonse
ⓘ
Charles ⓘ Louis ⓘ |
| knownFor |
discovery of the malaria parasite
ⓘ
research on protozoan parasites ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie de Médecine
ⓘ
French Academy of Sciences ⓘ
linked to:
Académie des Sciences
|
| militaryRank | army doctor ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | none ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first to demonstrate a protozoan as cause of human disease ⓘ |
| notableWork | identification of Plasmodium in human blood ⓘ |
| occupation |
military doctor
ⓘ
parasitologist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Algeria
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
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: Laveran Description of subject: Laveran is the surname of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, the French physician and Nobel laureate who discovered the parasite responsible for malaria.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.