Mereschkowski
E152898
Mereschkowski is the surname of Konstantin Mereschkowski, a Russian biologist known for proposing the theory of symbiogenesis in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mereschkowski canonical | 3 |
| Mereschkowsky | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1193935 — 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: Mereschkowski Context triple: [Konstantin Mereschkowski, familyName, Mereschkowski]
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A.
Colonna-Walewski
Colonna-Walewski is a Polish-French noble family name most notably borne by Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, a 19th-century statesman and diplomat and the illegitimate son of Napoleon I.
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B.
Lejzer
Lejzer is the given name of L. L. Zamenhof, the Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and linguist who created the international auxiliary language Esperanto.
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C.
Schwartzerdt
Schwartzerdt is the original German surname of the 16th-century Protestant reformer and humanist Philip Melanchthon, which he later Hellenized into the name by which he is best known.
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D.
Morgenstern
Morgenstern is a German surname borne by various notable figures in fields such as economics, literature, and the arts.
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E.
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.
- 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: Mereschkowski Target entity description: Mereschkowski is the surname of Konstantin Mereschkowski, a Russian biologist known for proposing the theory of symbiogenesis in the early 20th century.
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A.
Colonna-Walewski
Colonna-Walewski is a Polish-French noble family name most notably borne by Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, a 19th-century statesman and diplomat and the illegitimate son of Napoleon I.
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B.
Lejzer
Lejzer is the given name of L. L. Zamenhof, the Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and linguist who created the international auxiliary language Esperanto.
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C.
Schwartzerdt
Schwartzerdt is the original German surname of the 16th-century Protestant reformer and humanist Philip Melanchthon, which he later Hellenized into the name by which he is best known.
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D.
Morgenstern
Morgenstern is a German surname borne by various notable figures in fields such as economics, literature, and the arts.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biologist
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Leningrad State University
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg University
|
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Mereschkowski self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biology
ⓘ
botany ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ |
| givenName | Konstantin ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Mereschkowski self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| influenced |
Lynn Margulis
ⓘ
endosymbiotic theory ⓘ |
| knownFor | theory of symbiogenesis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableIdea | symbiogenesis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
publications on symbiogenesis
ⓘ
studies of plant cells ⓘ |
| occupation | biologist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
St. Petersburg
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surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| proposedThat |
chloroplasts originated from symbiotic cyanobacteria
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eukaryotic cells arose from symbiosis of distinct organisms ⓘ |
| proposedTheory | symbiogenesis ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studied |
algae
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cell structure ⓘ lichens ⓘ |
| theoryAppliesTo |
evolution of cell organelles
ⓘ
origin of eukaryotic cells ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mereschkowski Description of subject: Mereschkowski is the surname of Konstantin Mereschkowski, a Russian biologist known for proposing the theory of symbiogenesis in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Konstantin Mereschkowski
subject surface form:
Konstantin Mereschkowski
this entity surface form:
Mereschkowsky