Edvard Moser
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Edvard Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of grid cells, which are crucial for the brain’s spatial navigation system.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edvard Moser canonical | 5 |
| Edvard I. Moser | 4 |
| Edvard Moser (honorary doctorate, not student) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T205515 — 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: Edvard Moser Context triple: [University of Oslo, hasNotableAlumni, Edvard Moser]
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A.
Ann Graybiel
Ann Graybiel is a renowned neuroscientist known for her pioneering research on the basal ganglia and its role in habit formation and movement control.
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B.
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is an American neuroscientist and bioengineer renowned for pioneering optogenetics and advanced brain-imaging techniques that have transformed the study of neural circuits and behavior.
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C.
Hans Kehrl
Hans Kehrl was a German economist and industrial manager who became a prominent Nazi official involved in economic planning and armaments production during the Third Reich.
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D.
Christian M. Ravndal
Christian M. Ravndal was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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E.
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist renowned as a founder of paleogenomics, best known for sequencing the Neanderthal genome and advancing the study of human evolution.
- 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: Edvard Moser Target entity description: Edvard Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of grid cells, which are crucial for the brain’s spatial navigation system.
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A.
Ann Graybiel
Ann Graybiel is a renowned neuroscientist known for her pioneering research on the basal ganglia and its role in habit formation and movement control.
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B.
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth is an American neuroscientist and bioengineer renowned for pioneering optogenetics and advanced brain-imaging techniques that have transformed the study of neural circuits and behavior.
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C.
Hans Kehrl
Hans Kehrl was a German economist and industrial manager who became a prominent Nazi official involved in economic planning and armaments production during the Third Reich.
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D.
Christian M. Ravndal
Christian M. Ravndal was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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E.
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist renowned as a founder of paleogenomics, best known for sequencing the Neanderthal genome and advancing the study of human evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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academic ⓘ human ⓘ neuroscientist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in neurophysiology ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Kavli Prize
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surface form:
Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine ⓘ Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Norway ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Norway ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Oslo ⓘ |
| employer | Norwegian University of Science and Technology ⓘ |
| familyName | Moser ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
memory
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neuroscience ⓘ spatial navigation ⓘ systems neuroscience ⓘ |
| givenName | Edvard ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Per Andersen ⓘ |
| influencedBy | John O’Keefe ⓘ |
| knownFor |
discovery of grid cells
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research on brain’s spatial navigation system ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Norwegian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ⓘ |
| name | Edvard Moser self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Norwegian ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeCategory |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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surface form:
Physiology or Medicine
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| NobelPrizeYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
identification of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex
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studies of hippocampal–entorhinal circuit for spatial representation ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ålesund ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of Centre for Neural Computation
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director of Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience ⓘ professor of neuroscience ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
cell types underlying navigation
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cognitive map of space ⓘ neural basis of spatial memory ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesNobelPrizeWith |
John O’Keefe
ⓘ
May-Britt Moser ⓘ |
| spouse | May-Britt Moser ⓘ |
| workLocation | Trondheim ⓘ |
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: Edvard Moser Description of subject: Edvard Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of grid cells, which are crucial for the brain’s spatial navigation system.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edvard I. Moser
this entity surface form:
Edvard I. Moser
this entity surface form:
Edvard Moser (honorary doctorate, not student)
this entity surface form:
Edvard I. Moser
this entity surface form:
Edvard I. Moser