Hideyo Noguchi
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Hideyo Noguchi was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist renowned for his research on infectious diseases, including syphilis and yellow fever, during his career at the Rockefeller Institute in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hideyo Noguchi canonical | 3 |
| 野口英世 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10700632 — 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: Hideyo Noguchi Context triple: [Simon Flexner, notableStudent, Hideyo Noguchi]
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Shibasaburo Kitasato
Shibasaburo Kitasato was a pioneering Japanese bacteriologist best known for co-discovering the causative agent of bubonic plague and for major contributions to immunology and serum therapy.
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B.
Robert P. Koch
Robert P. Koch is an American lobbyist and president and CEO of the Wine Institute, known in part for his marriage into the Bush family.
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C.
Robert Koch
Robert Koch was a pioneering German physician and microbiologist who identified the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, laying the foundations of modern bacteriology.
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D.
Alexandre Yersin
Alexandre Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist best known for identifying the plague bacillus (Yersinia pestis) and contributing significantly to infectious disease research in the late 19th century.
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E.
Emil Adolf von Behring
Emil Adolf von Behring was a German physiologist and immunologist renowned for developing serum therapy against diphtheria and tetanus, earning him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 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: Hideyo Noguchi Target entity description: Hideyo Noguchi was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist renowned for his research on infectious diseases, including syphilis and yellow fever, during his career at the Rockefeller Institute in the early 20th century.
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A.
Shibasaburo Kitasato
Shibasaburo Kitasato was a pioneering Japanese bacteriologist best known for co-discovering the causative agent of bubonic plague and for major contributions to immunology and serum therapy.
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B.
Robert P. Koch
Robert P. Koch is an American lobbyist and president and CEO of the Wine Institute, known in part for his marriage into the Bush family.
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C.
Robert Koch
Robert Koch was a pioneering German physician and microbiologist who identified the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, laying the foundations of modern bacteriology.
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D.
Alexandre Yersin
Alexandre Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist best known for identifying the plague bacillus (Yersinia pestis) and contributing significantly to infectious disease research in the late 19th century.
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E.
Emil Adolf von Behring
Emil Adolf von Behring was a German physiologist and immunologist renowned for developing serum therapy against diphtheria and tetanus, earning him the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacteriologist
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human ⓘ medical researcher ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Order of the Rising Sun ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1876-11-09 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Inawashiro, Fukushima, Japan ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | yellow fever ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize
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Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Hall in Inawashiro ⓘ Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1928-05-21 ⓘ |
| depictedOn |
Japanese 1000 yen banknote
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linked to:
Japanese yen
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| educatedAt |
Saisei Gakusha medical school
ⓘ
linked to:
Jikei University School of Medicine
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| employer |
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
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linked to:
Rockefeller University
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| ethnicGroup | Japanese ⓘ |
| familyName |
Noguchi
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linked to:
Isamu Noguchi
|
| fieldOfWork |
bacteriology
ⓘ
infectious disease research ⓘ |
| genre | scientific literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Hideyo ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
public health in Africa
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tropical medicine ⓘ |
| hasNotableStudent | Tomisaku Kawasaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWork |
“The Spirochaeta Pallida in the Brain in General Paresis”
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“Yellow Fever: A Study in Epidemiology” ⓘ |
| influenced | development of serological tests for syphilis ⓘ |
| knownFor |
claiming to have cultured the syphilis spirochete
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yellow fever vaccine and serum research ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Rockefeller Institute staff ⓘ |
| name | Hideyo Noguchi ⓘ |
| nativeName |
野口英世
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linked to:
Hideyo Noguchi
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| notableWork |
research on poliomyelitis
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research on rabies ⓘ research on syphilis ⓘ research on trachoma ⓘ research on yellow fever ⓘ |
| occupation |
bacteriologist
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physician ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Accra, Gold Coast
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linked to:
Accra
present-day Ghana ⓘ
linked to:
Ghana
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| workLocation |
Africa
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Central America ⓘ New York City ⓘ South America ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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Subject: Hideyo Noguchi Description of subject: Hideyo Noguchi was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist renowned for his research on infectious diseases, including syphilis and yellow fever, during his career at the Rockefeller Institute in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (4)
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linked to: Hideyo Noguchi