David Botstein
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David Botstein is an influential American geneticist and educator known for pioneering methods in human genetic mapping and for his leadership roles at major research institutions and in industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Botstein canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1633912 — 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: David Botstein Context triple: [Calico LLC, keyPerson, David Botstein]
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A.
Paul Feldman
Paul Feldman is a computer scientist and cryptographer known for his work on digital signatures and other foundational topics in modern cryptography.
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B.
David Saperstein
David Saperstein is an American author best known for writing the science fiction novel "Cocoon," which was adapted into the popular 1985 film of the same name.
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C.
David B. Cornstein
David B. Cornstein is an American businessman and Republican political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Donald Trump.
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D.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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E.
Jay Bienstock
Jay Bienstock is a television producer best known for his work on major reality competition series, including serving as an executive producer on "The Apprentice."
- 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: David Botstein Target entity description: David Botstein is an influential American geneticist and educator known for pioneering methods in human genetic mapping and for his leadership roles at major research institutions and in industry.
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A.
Paul Feldman
Paul Feldman is a computer scientist and cryptographer known for his work on digital signatures and other foundational topics in modern cryptography.
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B.
David Saperstein
David Saperstein is an American author best known for writing the science fiction novel "Cocoon," which was adapted into the popular 1985 film of the same name.
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C.
David B. Cornstein
David B. Cornstein is an American businessman and Republican political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Donald Trump.
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D.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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E.
Marc Roskin
Marc Roskin is a television producer and director best known for his work on genre and adventure series such as "The Librarians."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American scientist
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academic ⓘ educator ⓘ geneticist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Albany Medical Center Prize
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Dan David Prize ⓘ Gairdner Foundation International Award ⓘ Gruber Genetics Prize ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer |
Genentech
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Botstein ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
genetics
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genomics ⓘ human genetics ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasRole | chief scientific officer at Genentech ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of human genome mapping strategies
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modern human genetics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to genome mapping
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leadership in scientific education ⓘ linkage mapping using restriction fragment length polymorphisms ⓘ pioneering methods in human genetic mapping ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Medicine ⓘ
surface form:
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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| name | David Botstein self-link ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Michael Eisen ⓘ |
| notableWork | paper on the use of RFLPs for human genetic linkage mapping ⓘ |
| occupation |
geneticist
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researcher ⓘ scientific administrator ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chair of the Department of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine
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director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University ⓘ faculty member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ faculty member at Princeton University ⓘ faculty member at Stanford University ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: David Botstein Description of subject: David Botstein is an influential American geneticist and educator known for pioneering methods in human genetic mapping and for his leadership roles at major research institutions and in industry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.