James Rothman
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James Rothman is an American cell biologist and biochemist renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of vesicle trafficking, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Rothman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9845084 — 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: James Rothman Context triple: [Thomas Südhof, NobelPrizeSharedWith, James Rothman]
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Thomas Südhof
Thomas Südhof is a German-American neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission.
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B.
George E. Palade
George E. Palade was a Romanian-American cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in electron microscopy and the discovery of ribosomes.
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C.
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering discoveries on the mechanisms of autophagy.
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D.
Richard Losick
Richard Losick is an American molecular biologist renowned for his research on bacterial development and gene regulation, particularly in Bacillus subtilis.
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E.
Thomas Gerdine
Thomas Gerdine was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Glacier Peak in Washington State.
- 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: James Rothman Target entity description: James Rothman is an American cell biologist and biochemist renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of vesicle trafficking, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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A.
Thomas Südhof
Thomas Südhof is a German-American neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission.
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B.
George E. Palade
George E. Palade was a Romanian-American cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in electron microscopy and the discovery of ribosomes.
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C.
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering discoveries on the mechanisms of autophagy.
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D.
Richard Losick
Richard Losick is an American molecular biologist renowned for his research on bacterial development and gene regulation, particularly in Bacillus subtilis.
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E.
Thomas Gerdine
Thomas Gerdine was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Glacier Peak in Washington State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
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biochemist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Gairdner Foundation International Award
NERFINISHED
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Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics NERFINISHED ⓘ Lasker Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-11-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia University
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Rothman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
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cell biology ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Eugene P. Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasORCID | 0000-0002-XXXX-XXXX ⓘ |
| knownFor |
SNARE hypothesis
NERFINISHED
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intracellular vesicle transport ⓘ molecular mechanisms of vesicle trafficking ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Philosophical Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name | James Edward Rothman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeCategory | Physiology or Medicine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| occupation |
research scientist
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university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
department chair of cell biology at Yale University
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professor of cell biology ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Golgi apparatus function
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membrane trafficking ⓘ vesicle docking and fusion ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesNobelPrizeWith |
Randy Schekman
NERFINISHED
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Thomas C. Südhof 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: James Rothman Description of subject: James Rothman is an American cell biologist and biochemist renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of vesicle trafficking, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Referenced by (1)
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