Susan R. Wente
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Susan R. Wente is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Wake Forest University.
All labels observed (1)
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| Susan R. Wente canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T996931 — 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: Susan R. Wente Context triple: [Wake Forest University, president, Susan R. Wente]
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Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory is an American plant biologist renowned for her pioneering work on how plants sense and respond to their environment, particularly light, and for her contributions to sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation.
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B.
Joan E. Donoghue
Joan E. Donoghue is an American jurist and former judge of the International Court of Justice who served as its president, becoming one of the most prominent contemporary figures in international law.
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C.
Stuart L. Schreiber
Stuart L. Schreiber is an influential American chemist renowned for pioneering work in chemical biology and diversity-oriented synthesis, which has profoundly impacted drug discovery and biological research.
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D.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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E.
Linda Salzman Sagan
Linda Salzman Sagan is an American artist and writer best known for co-designing the Pioneer plaque and contributing to other interstellar message projects alongside Carl Sagan.
- 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: Susan R. Wente Target entity description: Susan R. Wente is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Wake Forest University.
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A.
Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory is an American plant biologist renowned for her pioneering work on how plants sense and respond to their environment, particularly light, and for her contributions to sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation.
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B.
Joan E. Donoghue
Joan E. Donoghue is an American jurist and former judge of the International Court of Justice who served as its president, becoming one of the most prominent contemporary figures in international law.
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C.
Stuart L. Schreiber
Stuart L. Schreiber is an influential American chemist renowned for pioneering work in chemical biology and diversity-oriented synthesis, which has profoundly impacted drug discovery and biological research.
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D.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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E.
Linda Salzman Sagan
Linda Salzman Sagan is an American artist and writer best known for co-designing the Pioneer plaque and contributing to other interstellar message projects alongside Carl Sagan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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academic administrator ⓘ biologist ⓘ cell biologist ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
PhD in biochemistry
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bachelor's degree in biochemistry ⓘ |
| almaMater |
University of California, Berkeley
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University of Iowa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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University of Iowa ⓘ |
| employer |
Vanderbilt University
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Wake Forest University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
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cell biology ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor of cell and developmental biology ⓘ |
| hasEmployer |
Vanderbilt University
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Wake Forest University ⓘ |
| hasRole |
chancellor (interim)
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provost ⓘ scientific researcher ⓘ university executive ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the first woman to serve as president of Wake Forest University ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Society for Cell Biology ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
research on nuclear pore complexes
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research on nucleocytoplasmic transport ⓘ |
| notableWork | studies of nucleocytoplasmic transport pathways ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic leader
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cell biologist ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
interim chancellor of Vanderbilt University
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president of Wake Forest University ⓘ provost and vice chancellor of Vanderbilt University ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
RNA processing
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nuclear pore complex structure and function ⓘ nuclear transport ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Susan R. Wente Description of subject: Susan R. Wente is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Wake Forest University.
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