Eleanor Maguire
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Eleanor Maguire is a cognitive neuroscientist renowned for her research on human memory and spatial navigation, particularly her work using London taxi drivers to study the hippocampus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleanor Maguire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1792981 — 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: Eleanor Maguire Context triple: [Demis Hassabis, doctoralAdvisor, Eleanor Maguire]
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A.
Eleanor Dern
Eleanor Dern is a member of the Dern family, related to acclaimed American actor Bruce Dern.
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B.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
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C.
Eleanore Griffin
Eleanore Griffin was an American screenwriter best known for her Academy Award-winning work on socially conscious films during Hollywood’s studio era.
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D.
Emily Sargent
Emily Sargent was a British artist and watercolorist, best known for her landscapes and for being part of the culturally prominent Sargent family.
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E.
Eleanor Baum
Eleanor Baum is an American electrical engineer and pioneering academic leader recognized for breaking gender barriers in engineering education and professional societies.
- 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: Eleanor Maguire Target entity description: Eleanor Maguire is a cognitive neuroscientist renowned for her research on human memory and spatial navigation, particularly her work using London taxi drivers to study the hippocampus.
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A.
Eleanor Dern
Eleanor Dern is a member of the Dern family, related to acclaimed American actor Bruce Dern.
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B.
Eleanor Black
Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
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C.
Eleanore Griffin
Eleanore Griffin was an American screenwriter best known for her Academy Award-winning work on socially conscious films during Hollywood’s studio era.
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D.
Emily Sargent
Emily Sargent was a British artist and watercolorist, best known for her landscapes and for being part of the culturally prominent Sargent family.
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E.
Eleanor Baum
Eleanor Baum is an American electrical engineer and pioneering academic leader recognized for breaking gender barriers in engineering education and professional societies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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cognitive neuroscientist ⓘ human ⓘ neuroscientist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
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surface form:
Royal Society Fellow
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| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University College Dublin
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University of Wales ⓘ |
| employer | University College London ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cognitive neuroscience
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neuroimaging ⓘ neuroscience of memory ⓘ spatial navigation ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
neuroscience
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psychology ⓘ |
| hasResearchSubject |
hippocampus
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medial temporal lobe ⓘ |
| knownFor |
demonstrating structural changes in the hippocampus associated with navigation expertise
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research on human memory ⓘ research on spatial navigation ⓘ research on the hippocampus ⓘ study of London taxi drivers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academia Europaea
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Royal Society ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableFor | linking hippocampal structure to navigational experience in humans ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on hippocampal contributions to episodic memory
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study of hippocampal volume in London taxi drivers ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
autobiographical memory
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brain plasticity ⓘ episodic memory ⓘ navigation-related brain changes ⓘ scene construction ⓘ |
| studies |
neural basis of memory
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neural basis of spatial cognition ⓘ relationship between brain structure and behavior ⓘ |
| usesResearchMethod |
functional magnetic resonance imaging
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neuropsychological testing ⓘ structural MRI ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: Eleanor Maguire Description of subject: Eleanor Maguire is a cognitive neuroscientist renowned for her research on human memory and spatial navigation, particularly her work using London taxi drivers to study the hippocampus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.