Ben Feringa
E104314
Ben Feringa is a Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on molecular machines and asymmetric catalysis.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Feringa canonical | 4 |
| Bernard L. Feringa | 1 |
| Bernard Lucas Feringa | 1 |
| Feringa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T801356 — 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: Ben Feringa Context triple: [University of Groningen, hasNotableAlumni, Ben Feringa]
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A.
Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the directed evolution of enzymes, revolutionizing fields from green chemistry to biotechnology.
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B.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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C.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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D.
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as a founder of supramolecular chemistry for his pioneering work on molecular recognition and self-assembly.
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E.
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost is an American organic chemist renowned for pioneering the concept of atom economy and developing highly efficient catalytic reactions in synthetic chemistry.
- 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: Ben Feringa Target entity description: Ben Feringa is a Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on molecular machines and asymmetric catalysis.
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A.
Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the directed evolution of enzymes, revolutionizing fields from green chemistry to biotechnology.
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B.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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C.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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D.
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as a founder of supramolecular chemistry for his pioneering work on molecular recognition and self-assembly.
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E.
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost is an American organic chemist renowned for pioneering the concept of atom economy and developing highly efficient catalytic reactions in synthetic chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Ben Feringa Description of subject: Ben Feringa is a Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on molecular machines and asymmetric catalysis.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Feringa
this entity surface form:
Bernard Lucas Feringa
this entity surface form:
Bernard L. Feringa