Zinkernagel
E102888
Zinkernagel is a Swiss surname most notably borne by immunologist Rolf Zinkernagel, co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zinkernagel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T880640 — 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: Zinkernagel Context triple: [Rolf Zinkernagel, familyName, Zinkernagel]
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A.
Kritzinger
Kritzinger is a German surname most notably associated with Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, a high-ranking Nazi official involved in the administrative planning of the Holocaust.
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B.
Zierer
Zierer is a German amusement ride manufacturer known for producing family-friendly roller coasters and classic flat rides for theme parks worldwide.
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C.
Morgenstern
Morgenstern is a German surname borne by various notable figures in fields such as economics, literature, and the arts.
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D.
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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E.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
- 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: Zinkernagel Target entity description: Zinkernagel is a Swiss surname most notably borne by immunologist Rolf Zinkernagel, co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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A.
Kritzinger
Kritzinger is a German surname most notably associated with Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, a high-ranking Nazi official involved in the administrative planning of the Holocaust.
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B.
Zierer
Zierer is a German amusement ride manufacturer known for producing family-friendly roller coasters and classic flat rides for theme parks worldwide.
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C.
Morgenstern
Morgenstern is a German surname borne by various notable figures in fields such as economics, literature, and the arts.
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D.
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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E.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Zinkernagel Description of subject: Zinkernagel is a Swiss surname most notably borne by immunologist Rolf Zinkernagel, co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Rolf Zinkernagel