Ohsumi
E939787
Ohsumi is the surname of Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on autophagy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ohsumi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11165315 — 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: Ohsumi Context triple: [Yoshinori Ohsumi, familyName, Ohsumi]
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A.
Ōnamuchi
Ōnamuchi is another name for Ōkuninushi, a major Shinto deity associated with nation-building, medicine, and good fortune in Japanese mythology.
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B.
Tsutsumi
Tsutsumi is a Japanese surname associated with several notable figures in business, politics, and the arts in Japan.
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C.
Otomari
Otomari was a settlement in southern Sakhalin (then Karafuto) that served as a strategic Japanese military garrison area before and during World War II.
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D.
Otsuka
Otsuka is a neighborhood in Tokyo known for its mix of traditional shopping streets, residential areas, and convenient rail connections, including the JR Yamanote Line.
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E.
Shimamoto
Shimamoto is a town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, located between Kyoto and Osaka along the Yodo River.
- 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: Ohsumi Target entity description: Ohsumi is the surname of Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on autophagy.
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A.
Ōnamuchi
Ōnamuchi is another name for Ōkuninushi, a major Shinto deity associated with nation-building, medicine, and good fortune in Japanese mythology.
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B.
Tsutsumi
Tsutsumi is a Japanese surname associated with several notable figures in business, politics, and the arts in Japan.
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C.
Otomari
Otomari was a settlement in southern Sakhalin (then Karafuto) that served as a strategic Japanese military garrison area before and during World War II.
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D.
Otsuka
Otsuka is a neighborhood in Tokyo known for its mix of traditional shopping streets, residential areas, and convenient rail connections, including the JR Yamanote Line.
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E.
Shimamoto
Shimamoto is a town in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, located between Kyoto and Osaka along the Yodo River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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biologist ⓘ cell biologist ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Canada Gairdner International Award
NERFINISHED
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Keio Medical Science Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ Order of Culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosenstiel Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Japanese ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Japan ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Tokyo Institute of Technology
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ohsumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
autophagy
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cell biology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Yoshinori NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Yoshinori Ohsumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
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research on autophagy ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | none ⓘ |
| notableWork |
elucidation of molecular mechanisms of autophagy
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identification of autophagy-related (ATG) genes in yeast ⓘ |
| occupation | university professor ⓘ |
| researchSubject |
lysosomes
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vacuoles ⓘ yeast ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Japanese script ⓘ |
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: Ohsumi Description of subject: Ohsumi is the surname of Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on autophagy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.