Vilayanur
E819902
Vilayanur is the given name of V. S. Ramachandran, a prominent neuroscientist known for his work on visual perception and phantom limbs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vilayanur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9744014 — 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: Vilayanur Context triple: [V. S. Ramachandran, givenName, Vilayanur]
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A.
Manapparai
Manapparai is a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, known especially for its traditional rice-based snack called Manapparai murukku.
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B.
Vandiyur
Vandiyur is a locality in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, known for its historic temple tank and religious significance.
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C.
Uzhavoor
Uzhavoor is a small town in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India, best known as the birthplace of former President of India K. R. Narayanan.
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D.
Sriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur is a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, historically notable as the site of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination and as the birthplace of the philosopher Ramanuja.
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E.
Palani
Palani is a major Hindu pilgrimage town in Tamil Nadu, India, renowned for its hilltop temple dedicated to the god Kartikeya (Murugan).
- 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: Vilayanur Target entity description: Vilayanur is the given name of V. S. Ramachandran, a prominent neuroscientist known for his work on visual perception and phantom limbs.
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A.
Manapparai
Manapparai is a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, known especially for its traditional rice-based snack called Manapparai murukku.
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B.
Vandiyur
Vandiyur is a locality in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, known for its historic temple tank and religious significance.
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C.
Uzhavoor
Uzhavoor is a small town in the Kottayam district of Kerala, India, best known as the birthplace of former President of India K. R. Narayanan.
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D.
Sriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur is a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, historically notable as the site of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination and as the birthplace of the philosopher Ramanuja.
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E.
Palani
Palani is a major Hindu pilgrimage town in Tamil Nadu, India, renowned for its hilltop temple dedicated to the god Kartikeya (Murugan).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
neuroscientist
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person ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
M.D.
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Ph.D. ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | V. S. Ramachandran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ariëns Kappers Medal
NERFINISHED
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Fellow of the Royal Society of London NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Dale Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Padma Bhushan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
India
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-08-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Trinity College, Cambridge
ⓘ
University of Madras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ramachandran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
behavioral neurology
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cognitive neuroscience ⓘ neuropsychology ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ visual perception ⓘ |
| fullName | Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Vilayanur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
mirror box therapy
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popular science writing on the brain ⓘ research on phantom limbs ⓘ research on visual perception ⓘ work on body image disorders ⓘ work on synesthesia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Tamil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness
NERFINISHED
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Phantoms in the Brain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tell-Tale Brain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Chennai
NERFINISHED
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India NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition
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Neurosciences faculty member ⓘ Professor of Psychology ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
consciousness
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neurological syndromes ⓘ phantom limb pain ⓘ synesthesia ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Vilayanur Description of subject: Vilayanur is the given name of V. S. Ramachandran, a prominent neuroscientist known for his work on visual perception and phantom limbs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.