Sir Henry Dale
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Sir Henry Dale was a British pharmacologist and physiologist who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir Henry Dale canonical | 2 |
| Otto Loewi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3398180 — 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: Sir Henry Dale Context triple: [Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, hasGraveOf, Sir Henry Dale]
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A. V. Hill
A. V. Hill was a British physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on muscle physiology and the biophysics of nerve and muscle function.
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R. A. Hodgkin
R. A. Hodgkin was a British mathematician known for contributions to algebra and topology, particularly in homological algebra and K-theory.
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
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Sir James Black
Sir James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing treatments for heart disease and peptic ulcers.
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Nicholas Hodgkin
Nicholas Hodgkin is a British mathematician known for his contributions to differential equations and mathematical analysis.
- 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: Sir Henry Dale Target entity description: Sir Henry Dale was a British pharmacologist and physiologist who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
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A.
A. V. Hill
A. V. Hill was a British physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on muscle physiology and the biophysics of nerve and muscle function.
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B.
R. A. Hodgkin
R. A. Hodgkin was a British mathematician known for contributions to algebra and topology, particularly in homological algebra and K-theory.
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C.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
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D.
Sir James Black
Sir James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing treatments for heart disease and peptic ulcers.
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E.
Nicholas Hodgkin
Nicholas Hodgkin is a British mathematician known for his contributions to differential equations and mathematical analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Sir Henry Dale Description of subject: Sir Henry Dale was a British pharmacologist and physiologist who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Otto Loewi