Phil Baran
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Phil Baran is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in synthetic organic chemistry and the development of innovative methods for constructing complex natural products.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phil Baran canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8038640 — 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: Phil Baran Context triple: [Baran, hasNotableBearer, Phil Baran]
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A.
Cliff Eidelman
Cliff Eidelman is an American composer best known for his orchestral film scores, including his acclaimed work on movies such as Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and other major Hollywood productions.
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B.
Barry Kramer
Barry Kramer is an American video editor and internet personality best known for his work on the Game Grumps YouTube channel and related online projects.
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C.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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D.
Rob Wasserman
Rob Wasserman was an American Grammy-winning bassist and composer known for his innovative solo work and collaborations with artists such as Bob Weir, Lou Reed, and Elvis Costello.
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E.
Barry Eisenberg
Barry Eisenberg is the father of former child actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg, known for her Pepsi commercials and film roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- 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: Phil Baran Target entity description: Phil Baran is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in synthetic organic chemistry and the development of innovative methods for constructing complex natural products.
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A.
Cliff Eidelman
Cliff Eidelman is an American composer best known for his orchestral film scores, including his acclaimed work on movies such as Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and other major Hollywood productions.
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B.
Barry Kramer
Barry Kramer is an American video editor and internet personality best known for his work on the Game Grumps YouTube channel and related online projects.
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C.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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D.
Rob Wasserman
Rob Wasserman was an American Grammy-winning bassist and composer known for his innovative solo work and collaborations with artists such as Bob Weir, Lou Reed, and Elvis Costello.
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E.
Barry Eisenberg
Barry Eisenberg is the father of former child actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg, known for her Pepsi commercials and film roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American scientist
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academic ⓘ chemist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | K. C. Nicolaou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
NERFINISHED
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Aldrich Lecture Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Elias J. Corey Award NERFINISHED ⓘ MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Society of Chemistry synthetic organic chemistry awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | pharmaceutical industry ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | K. C. Nicolaou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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New York University ⓘ The Scripps Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | The Scripps Research Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
C–H functionalization
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electroorganic synthesis ⓘ medicinal chemistry ⓘ natural product synthesis ⓘ organic chemistry ⓘ radical chemistry ⓘ synthetic organic chemistry ⓘ |
| hasHIndex | high citation impact in chemistry ⓘ |
| hasORCID | 0000-0002-7125-7685 ⓘ |
| hasResearchGroup | Baran Lab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
electrosynthesis in flow
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late-stage functionalization ⓘ streamlined synthetic routes ⓘ sustainable synthetic methods ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.scripps.edu/baran ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Elias J. Corey
NERFINISHED
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K. C. Nicolaou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative strategies for natural product synthesis
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pioneering work in synthetic organic chemistry ⓘ practical and scalable synthetic methods ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Chemical Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of C–H functionalization methods
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electrochemical methods in organic synthesis ⓘ scalable synthetic routes to pharmaceuticals ⓘ total synthesis of complex natural products ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry
NERFINISHED
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Professor of Chemistry ⓘ |
| workLocation | La Jolla, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workplace | Scripps Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Phil Baran Description of subject: Phil Baran is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in synthetic organic chemistry and the development of innovative methods for constructing complex natural products.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.