Yersin
E861096
French-language surname
bacterial genus
bacteriologist
bacterium
city
former French colony
human
municipality
physician
research institute
surname
Yersin is a French surname most notably borne by Alexandre Yersin, the bacteriologist who co-discovered the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yersin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10398744 — 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: Yersin Context triple: [Alexandre Yersin, familyName, Yersin]
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A.
Escherich
Escherich is a German surname most notably associated with pediatrician and bacteriologist Theodor Escherich, after whom the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) is named.
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B.
Laveran
Laveran is the surname of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, the French physician and Nobel laureate who discovered the parasite responsible for malaria.
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C.
Erwin
Erwin is a masculine given name of German origin, historically associated with figures such as the World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel.
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D.
Luria
Luria is a surname most notably associated with Nobel Prize–winning microbiologist Salvador Luria and several other prominent figures in science and Jewish intellectual history.
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E.
Ehrlich
Ehrlich is a German-origin surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, medicine, and the arts.
- 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: Yersin Target entity description: Yersin is a French surname most notably borne by Alexandre Yersin, the bacteriologist who co-discovered the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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A.
Escherich
Escherich is a German surname most notably associated with pediatrician and bacteriologist Theodor Escherich, after whom the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) is named.
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B.
Laveran
Laveran is the surname of Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, the French physician and Nobel laureate who discovered the parasite responsible for malaria.
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C.
Erwin
Erwin is a masculine given name of German origin, historically associated with figures such as the World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel.
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D.
Luria
Luria is a surname most notably associated with Nobel Prize–winning microbiologist Salvador Luria and several other prominent figures in science and Jewish intellectual history.
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E.
Ehrlich
Ehrlich is a German-origin surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, medicine, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French-language surname
ⓘ
bacterial genus ⓘ bacteriologist ⓘ bacterium ⓘ city ⓘ former French colony ⓘ human ⓘ municipality ⓘ physician ⓘ research institute ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| causes |
bubonic plague
ⓘ
pneumonic plague ⓘ septicemic plague ⓘ |
| country |
Switzerland
ⓘ
Viet Nam ⓘ
surface form:
Vietnam
|
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1863-09-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1943-03-01 ⓘ |
| discovered | Yersinia pestis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Lausanne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Pasteur Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yersin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bacteriology
ⓘ
microbiology ⓘ microbiology ⓘ |
| genus | Yersinia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexandre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameInTaxon | Yersinia pestis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alexandre Yersin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alexandre Yersin (bacteriologist) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-discovery of Yersinia pestis
ⓘ
research on bubonic plague ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Alexandre Yersin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alexandre Yersin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | isolation of plague bacillus in 1894 ⓘ |
| occupation |
agronomist
ⓘ
colonial physician ⓘ explorer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Aubonne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nha Trang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedUnder |
Emile Roux
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louis Pasteur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| workLocation | French Indochina 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: Yersin Description of subject: Yersin is a French surname most notably borne by Alexandre Yersin, the bacteriologist who co-discovered the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.