Jonathan A. Eisen
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Jonathan A. Eisen is an American evolutionary biologist and microbiologist known for his work on microbial genomics and the evolution of complex life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan Eisen | 2 |
| Jonathan A. Eisen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9079876 — 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: Jonathan A. Eisen Context triple: [Nick Barton, coAuthor, Jonathan A. Eisen]
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Matthew H. Carpenter
Matthew H. Carpenter was a 19th-century American lawyer and Republican politician from Wisconsin who served as a U.S. Senator and was known for his influential role in Reconstruction-era legal and constitutional debates.
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B.
Joshua Erenberg
Joshua Erenberg is an American actor known for his roles in film and television, including a part in the drama film "Crisis."
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C.
Brian P. Flannery
Brian P. Flannery is a physicist and numerical analyst best known as a co-author of the influential scientific computing reference book "Numerical Recipes."
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D.
John C. Avise
John C. Avise is an American evolutionary geneticist renowned for pioneering the use of molecular markers to study natural populations, phylogeography, and conservation biology.
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E.
Emily T. Troscianko
Emily T. Troscianko is a scholar and writer known for her work on consciousness studies and the psychology of reading, including co-authoring the textbook "Consciousness: An Introduction."
- 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: Jonathan A. Eisen Target entity description: Jonathan A. Eisen is an American evolutionary biologist and microbiologist known for his work on microbial genomics and the evolution of complex life.
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A.
Matthew H. Carpenter
Matthew H. Carpenter was a 19th-century American lawyer and Republican politician from Wisconsin who served as a U.S. Senator and was known for his influential role in Reconstruction-era legal and constitutional debates.
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B.
Joshua Erenberg
Joshua Erenberg is an American actor known for his roles in film and television, including a part in the drama film "Crisis."
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C.
Brian P. Flannery
Brian P. Flannery is a physicist and numerical analyst best known as a co-author of the influential scientific computing reference book "Numerical Recipes."
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D.
John C. Avise
John C. Avise is an American evolutionary geneticist renowned for pioneering the use of molecular markers to study natural populations, phylogeography, and conservation biology.
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E.
Emily T. Troscianko
Emily T. Troscianko is a scholar and writer known for her work on consciousness studies and the psychology of reading, including co-authoring the textbook "Consciousness: An Introduction."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
evolutionary biologist
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person ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Davis ⓘ |
| familyName | Eisen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bioinformatics
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evolution of complex life ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ genomics ⓘ metagenomics ⓘ microbial genomics ⓘ microbiology ⓘ microbiome research ⓘ phylogenomics ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
comparative genomics
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environmental microbiology ⓘ eukaryote evolution ⓘ horizontal gene transfer ⓘ host-associated microbiomes ⓘ phylogenetics ⓘ |
| hasRole |
editor of scientific journals
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public advocate for open science ⓘ science blogger ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Michael Eisen ⓘ |
| knownFor |
blogging about genomics and microbiology
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evolution of complex life ⓘ metagenomics ⓘ microbial genomics ⓘ science communication ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Society for Microbiology
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American Society of Naturalists ⓘ |
| notableFor | promoting open access in scientific publishing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
metagenomics of environmental microbiomes
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microbial genomics research ⓘ phylogenomic analyses of microbes ⓘ studies on the evolution of complex life ⓘ |
| occupation |
evolutionary biologist
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microbiologist ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Davis, California ⓘ |
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: Jonathan A. Eisen Description of subject: Jonathan A. Eisen is an American evolutionary biologist and microbiologist known for his work on microbial genomics and the evolution of complex life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jonathan A. Eisen
linked to: Jonathan A. Eisen