Tu Youyou
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Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the antimalarial drug artemisinin, which has saved millions of lives worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tu Youyou canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1696215 — 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: Tu Youyou Context triple: [Sun Yat-sen University, hasNotableAlumni, Tu Youyou]
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A.
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
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B.
Li Shizhen
Li Shizhen was a renowned Ming dynasty physician and pharmacologist best known for compiling the monumental medical encyclopedia "Compendium of Materia Medica" (Bencao Gangmu).
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C.
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate, renowned for pioneering the rational design of drugs to treat leukemia, autoimmune disorders, and organ transplant rejection.
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D.
Joseph Needham
Joseph Needham was a British biochemist and pioneering historian of Chinese science and technology, best known for his monumental multi-volume work "Science and Civilisation in China."
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E.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering Chinese-American experimental physicist whose groundbreaking work on beta decay and the violation of parity conservation made her one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.
- 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: Tu Youyou Target entity description: Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the antimalarial drug artemisinin, which has saved millions of lives worldwide.
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A.
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
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B.
Li Shizhen
Li Shizhen was a renowned Ming dynasty physician and pharmacologist best known for compiling the monumental medical encyclopedia "Compendium of Materia Medica" (Bencao Gangmu).
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C.
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate, renowned for pioneering the rational design of drugs to treat leukemia, autoimmune disorders, and organ transplant rejection.
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D.
Joseph Needham
Joseph Needham was a British biochemist and pioneering historian of Chinese science and technology, best known for his monumental multi-volume work "Science and Civilisation in China."
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E.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering Chinese-American experimental physicist whose groundbreaking work on beta decay and the violation of parity conservation made her one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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chemist ⓘ human ⓘ pharmaceutical chemist ⓘ pharmacologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize
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Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
State Preeminent Science and Technology Award ⓘ |
| coLaureate |
Satoshi Ōmura
ⓘ
William C. Campbell ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-12-30 ⓘ |
| discovered |
artemisinin
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dihydroartemisinin ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Peking University
ⓘ
Peking University Medical School ⓘ |
| employer |
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
ⓘ
surface form:
China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
|
| familyName | Tu ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
pharmaceutical chemistry
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pharmacology ⓘ traditional Chinese medicine research ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Youyou ⓘ |
| hasSavedLives | millions of malaria patients worldwide ⓘ |
| influencedBy | traditional Chinese medicine ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Project 523
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antimalarial therapy ⓘ discovery of artemisinin ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Chinese Academy of Engineering
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Chinese Communist Party ⓘ |
| name | Tu Youyou self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeCategory |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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surface form:
Physiology or Medicine
|
| nobelPrizeMotivation | discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| notableWork | extraction of artemisinin from Artemisia annua ⓘ |
| occupation |
pharmaceutical chemist
ⓘ
pharmacologist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
China
ⓘ
Ningbo-Zhoushan ⓘ
surface form:
Ningbo
Zhejiang Province ⓘ
surface form:
Zhejiang
|
| researchFocus |
antimalarial drugs
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parasitic diseases ⓘ |
| usedMethod | screening of traditional Chinese herbal remedies ⓘ |
| workLocation | Beijing ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Tu Youyou Description of subject: Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the antimalarial drug artemisinin, which has saved millions of lives worldwide.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.