Charles Sherrington
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Charles Sherrington was a pioneering English neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate whose work on the functions of neurons and the concept of the synapse fundamentally shaped modern neuroscience.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Scott Sherrington | 1 |
| Charles Sherrington canonical | 1 |
| Sherrington | 1 |
| Sir Charles Scott Sherrington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7595589 — 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: Charles Sherrington Context triple: [Wolvercote Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Charles Sherrington]
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Edgar Adrian
Edgar Adrian was a British neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the electrical activity of neurons and the coding of nerve impulses.
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Alan Hodgkin
Alan Hodgkin was a British physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membranes and the generation of nerve impulses.
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John Eccles
John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the physiology of synapses and neural communication.
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D.
R. A. Hodgkin
R. A. Hodgkin was a British mathematician known for contributions to algebra and topology, particularly in homological algebra and K-theory.
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Arthur Hodgkin
Arthur Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
- 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: Charles Sherrington Target entity description: Charles Sherrington was a pioneering English neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate whose work on the functions of neurons and the concept of the synapse fundamentally shaped modern neuroscience.
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A.
Edgar Adrian
Edgar Adrian was a British neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the electrical activity of neurons and the coding of nerve impulses.
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B.
Alan Hodgkin
Alan Hodgkin was a British physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membranes and the generation of nerve impulses.
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C.
John Eccles
John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the physiology of synapses and neural communication.
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D.
R. A. Hodgkin
R. A. Hodgkin was a British mathematician known for contributions to algebra and topology, particularly in homological algebra and K-theory.
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E.
Arthur Hodgkin
Arthur Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Charles Sherrington Description of subject: Charles Sherrington was a pioneering English neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate whose work on the functions of neurons and the concept of the synapse fundamentally shaped modern neuroscience.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Charles Sherrington
linked to: Charles Sherrington
linked to: Charles Sherrington