auditory cortex
E211956
The auditory cortex is a region of the brain’s temporal lobe responsible for processing and interpreting sound information, including aspects like pitch, volume, and speech.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| primary auditory cortex | 4 |
| Heschl's gyrus | 1 |
| auditory cortex canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909530 — 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: auditory cortex Context triple: [Broca's area, connectedTo, auditory cortex]
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A.
Wernicke area
Wernicke area is a region of the human brain’s temporal lobe crucial for understanding spoken and written language.
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B.
Broca's area
Broca's area is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain that is crucial for speech production and language processing.
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C.
prefrontal cortex
The prefrontal cortex is the front part of the brain’s frontal lobes responsible for higher-order functions such as decision-making, attention, impulse control, and working memory.
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D.
RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium)
RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium) is a premotor song-control nucleus in the songbird brain that plays a key role in generating and learning vocalizations, particularly studied in species like the zebra finch.
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E.
Marr area
The Marr area is a largely rural region of western Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland, known for its upland landscapes, Deeside and Donside valleys, and historic estates.
- 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: auditory cortex Target entity description: The auditory cortex is a region of the brain’s temporal lobe responsible for processing and interpreting sound information, including aspects like pitch, volume, and speech.
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A.
Wernicke area
Wernicke area is a region of the human brain’s temporal lobe crucial for understanding spoken and written language.
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B.
Broca's area
Broca's area is a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere of the brain that is crucial for speech production and language processing.
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C.
prefrontal cortex
The prefrontal cortex is the front part of the brain’s frontal lobes responsible for higher-order functions such as decision-making, attention, impulse control, and working memory.
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D.
RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium)
RA (robust nucleus of the arcopallium) is a premotor song-control nucleus in the songbird brain that plays a key role in generating and learning vocalizations, particularly studied in species like the zebra finch.
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E.
Marr area
The Marr area is a largely rural region of western Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland, known for its upland landscapes, Deeside and Donside valleys, and historic estates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
auditory system component
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brain region ⓘ cortical area ⓘ sensory cortex ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Wernicke area ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Broca's area
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surface form:
Broca area
Wernicke area ⓘ limbic structures ⓘ parietal cortex ⓘ prefrontal cortex ⓘ |
| damageCanCause |
auditory agnosia
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cortical deafness ⓘ impaired speech perception ⓘ |
| function |
analysis of loudness
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analysis of pitch ⓘ analysis of sound location ⓘ auditory pattern recognition ⓘ music perception ⓘ processing sound information ⓘ sound feature integration ⓘ speech perception ⓘ temporal processing of sounds ⓘ |
| hasFunctionalPart |
belt region
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core region ⓘ parabelt region ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
bilateral representation
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columnar organization ⓘ hierarchical organization ⓘ plasticity ⓘ tonotopic organization ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
belt areas
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parabelt areas ⓘ auditory cortex self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
primary auditory cortex
secondary auditory cortex ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
auditory attention
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auditory memory ⓘ language comprehension ⓘ multisensory integration ⓘ phoneme discrimination ⓘ sound localization ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
human brain
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mammalian brain ⓘ Wernicke area ⓘ
surface form:
superior temporal gyrus
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| locatedPrimarilyIn |
Brodmann area 41
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Brodmann area 42 ⓘ |
| partOf |
cerebral cortex
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cerebral cortex ⓘ
surface form:
telencephalon
temporal lobe ⓘ |
| receivesInputFrom |
inferior colliculus
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medial geniculate nucleus ⓘ thalamus ⓘ |
| studiedUsing |
electroencephalography
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functional MRI ⓘ intracranial recordings ⓘ magnetoencephalography ⓘ |
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: auditory cortex Description of subject: The auditory cortex is a region of the brain’s temporal lobe responsible for processing and interpreting sound information, including aspects like pitch, volume, and speech.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
primary auditory cortex
this entity surface form:
primary auditory cortex
this entity surface form:
Heschl's gyrus
this entity surface form:
primary auditory cortex
this entity surface form:
primary auditory cortex