Mary-Claire King
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Mary-Claire King is an American geneticist renowned for discovering the BRCA1 gene’s role in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and for pioneering the use of genetics in human rights investigations.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12448469 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary-Claire King Context triple: [Gruber Genetics Prize, notableRecipient, Mary-Claire King]
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Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for her discovery of telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, which revealed key mechanisms of chromosome protection and cellular aging.
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B.
Evelyn Witkin
Evelyn Witkin was an American geneticist renowned for her pioneering work on DNA damage and repair mechanisms, which helped establish the field of DNA mutagenesis and earned her the Lasker Award.
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C.
J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
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D.
Joan A. Steitz
Joan A. Steitz is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work on RNA biology and the discovery of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) involved in RNA splicing.
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E.
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was an American cytogeneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering "jumping genes" (transposable elements) in maize, fundamentally transforming genetics.
- 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: Mary-Claire King Target entity description: Mary-Claire King is an American geneticist renowned for discovering the BRCA1 gene’s role in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and for pioneering the use of genetics in human rights investigations.
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A.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for her discovery of telomeres and the enzyme telomerase, which revealed key mechanisms of chromosome protection and cellular aging.
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B.
Evelyn Witkin
Evelyn Witkin was an American geneticist renowned for her pioneering work on DNA damage and repair mechanisms, which helped establish the field of DNA mutagenesis and earned her the Lasker Award.
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C.
J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
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D.
Joan A. Steitz
Joan A. Steitz is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work on RNA biology and the discovery of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) involved in RNA splicing.
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E.
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was an American cytogeneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering "jumping genes" (transposable elements) in maize, fundamentally transforming genetics.
- F. None of above. chosen
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