Lwoff
E731504
Lwoff is the surname of André Lwoff, a Nobel Prize–winning French microbiologist and virologist known for his work on the genetic regulation of viruses.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lwoff canonical | 3 |
| Lwoff 1939 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8410445 — 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: Lwoff Context triple: [André Lwoff, familyName, Lwoff]
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A.
Luria
Luria is a surname most notably associated with Nobel Prize–winning microbiologist Salvador Luria and several other prominent figures in science and Jewish intellectual history.
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B.
Tatischeff
Tatischeff is the original family surname of French filmmaker and actor Jacques Tati, known for his influential comedic films and the character Monsieur Hulot.
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C.
Richet
Richet is a French surname most notably associated with Charles Richet, the Nobel Prize–winning physiologist who discovered and named anaphylaxis.
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D.
Dulbecco
Dulbecco is the surname of Renato Dulbecco, an Italian virologist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his pioneering work on the interaction between viruses and the genetic material of cells.
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E.
Noe Zhordania
Noe Zhordania was a Georgian Menshevik politician who led the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia as its prime minister from 1918 to 1921.
- 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: Lwoff Target entity description: Lwoff is the surname of André Lwoff, a Nobel Prize–winning French microbiologist and virologist known for his work on the genetic regulation of viruses.
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A.
Luria
Luria is a surname most notably associated with Nobel Prize–winning microbiologist Salvador Luria and several other prominent figures in science and Jewish intellectual history.
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B.
Tatischeff
Tatischeff is the original family surname of French filmmaker and actor Jacques Tati, known for his influential comedic films and the character Monsieur Hulot.
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C.
Richet
Richet is a French surname most notably associated with Charles Richet, the Nobel Prize–winning physiologist who discovered and named anaphylaxis.
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D.
Dulbecco
Dulbecco is the surname of Renato Dulbecco, an Italian virologist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his pioneering work on the interaction between viruses and the genetic material of cells.
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E.
Noe Zhordania
Noe Zhordania was a Georgian Menshevik politician who led the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia as its prime minister from 1918 to 1921.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French scientist
ⓘ
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| familyName | Lwoff ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
genetics
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microbiology ⓘ virology ⓘ |
| givenName | André ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Lwoff ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on bacteriophages
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research on lysogeny ⓘ |
| notableWork | genetic regulation of viruses ⓘ |
| occupation |
microbiologist
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virologist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studies |
bacteria
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viruses ⓘ |
| usedBy | André Lwoff ⓘ |
| workLocation | France ⓘ |
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: Lwoff Description of subject: Lwoff is the surname of André Lwoff, a Nobel Prize–winning French microbiologist and virologist known for his work on the genetic regulation of viruses.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.