angular gyrus
E764617
The angular gyrus is a region of the parietal lobe involved in language, reading, number processing, and various aspects of higher-level cognition and semantic integration.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| angular gyrus canonical | 4 |
| inferior parietal lobule | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8902058 — 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: angular gyrus Context triple: [perisylvian language network, includesRegion, angular gyrus]
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A.
Wernicke area
Wernicke area is a region of the human brain’s temporal lobe crucial for understanding spoken and written language.
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B.
Broca's area
Broca's area is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain that is crucial for speech production and language processing.
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C.
entorhinal cortex
The entorhinal cortex is a brain region in the medial temporal lobe crucial for memory, navigation, and serving as a major interface between the hippocampus and neocortex.
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D.
Amygdala
The amygdala is an almond-shaped brain structure in the temporal lobe that plays a central role in processing emotions, especially fear and threat detection.
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E.
Broca
Broca is a French surname most famously associated with Paul Broca, the 19th-century physician and anatomist who identified the brain region responsible for speech production.
- 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: angular gyrus Target entity description: The angular gyrus is a region of the parietal lobe involved in language, reading, number processing, and various aspects of higher-level cognition and semantic integration.
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A.
Wernicke area
Wernicke area is a region of the human brain’s temporal lobe crucial for understanding spoken and written language.
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B.
Broca's area
Broca's area is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain that is crucial for speech production and language processing.
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C.
entorhinal cortex
The entorhinal cortex is a brain region in the medial temporal lobe crucial for memory, navigation, and serving as a major interface between the hippocampus and neocortex.
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D.
Amygdala
The amygdala is an almond-shaped brain structure in the temporal lobe that plays a central role in processing emotions, especially fear and threat detection.
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E.
Broca
Broca is a French surname most famously associated with Paul Broca, the 19th-century physician and anatomist who identified the brain region responsible for speech production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brain region
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gray matter structure ⓘ gyrus ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
arithmetic ability
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episodic memory ⓘ language comprehension ⓘ metaphor comprehension ⓘ reading comprehension ⓘ |
| borders |
superior occipital lobule
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superior temporal gyrus ⓘ supramarginal gyrus ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Wernicke area
ⓘ
hippocampal formation ⓘ
linked to:
hippocampus
prefrontal cortex ⓘ supramarginal gyrus ⓘ |
| correspondsToBrodmannArea | Brodmann area 39 ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
attention
ⓘ
calculation ⓘ default mode network activity ⓘ higher-level cognition ⓘ language processing ⓘ memory retrieval ⓘ multimodal integration ⓘ number processing ⓘ reading ⓘ semantic integration ⓘ semantic processing ⓘ spatial cognition ⓘ theory of mind ⓘ writing ⓘ |
| lesionCanAffect |
number processing
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reading and writing skills ⓘ semantic processing ⓘ |
| lesionCanCause |
Gerstmann syndrome
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acalculia ⓘ agraphia ⓘ alexia ⓘ aphasia ⓘ finger agnosia ⓘ left-right disorientation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
human brain
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left hemisphere ⓘ right hemisphere ⓘ |
| partOf |
cerebral cortex
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parietal lobe ⓘ posterior parietal cortex ⓘ |
| partOfNetwork |
default mode network
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language network ⓘ parietal–temporal association cortex network ⓘ |
| receivesInputFrom |
auditory cortex
ⓘ
somatosensory cortex ⓘ
linked to:
primary somatosensory cortex
visual cortex ⓘ |
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: angular gyrus Description of subject: The angular gyrus is a region of the parietal lobe involved in language, reading, number processing, and various aspects of higher-level cognition and semantic integration.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: angular gyrus