Jack W. Szostak
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Jack W. Szostak is a Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist renowned for his pioneering work on telomeres and the mechanisms of chromosome protection.
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| Jack W. Szostak canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15217771 — 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: Jack W. Szostak Context triple: [Carol W. Greider, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Jack W. Szostak]
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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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Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider is an American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for co-discovering the enzyme telomerase and elucidating the role of telomeres in chromosome protection and cellular aging.
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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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D.
Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
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E.
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on DNA repair mechanisms.
- 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: Jack W. Szostak Target entity description: Jack W. Szostak is a Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist renowned for his pioneering work on telomeres and the mechanisms of chromosome protection.
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A.
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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B.
Carol W. Greider
Carol W. Greider is an American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for co-discovering the enzyme telomerase and elucidating the role of telomeres in chromosome protection and cellular aging.
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C.
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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D.
Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
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E.
Aziz Sancar
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American biochemist and molecular biologist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on DNA repair mechanisms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.