Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot was a pioneering British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of important biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy Mary Crowfoot canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3434337 — 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: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Context triple: [Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, birthName, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot]
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A.
Enid Mary Pollock
Enid Mary Pollock is the birth name of Enid Blyton, the famous British children's author known for series such as "The Famous Five" and "The Secret Seven."
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B.
Ethel Lina White
Ethel Lina White was a British crime novelist best known for her suspenseful mystery thrillers, several of which, including the source for the film "The Spiral Staircase," were adapted for cinema.
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C.
Cordelia Whewell
Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
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D.
Margaret Eva Watson
Margaret Eva Watson was the wife of Herbert Hoover Jr., an engineer and businessman and the elder son of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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E.
Elinor Mead
Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
- 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: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Target entity description: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot was a pioneering British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of important biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
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A.
Enid Mary Pollock
Enid Mary Pollock is the birth name of Enid Blyton, the famous British children's author known for series such as "The Famous Five" and "The Secret Seven."
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B.
Ethel Lina White
Ethel Lina White was a British crime novelist best known for her suspenseful mystery thrillers, several of which, including the source for the film "The Spiral Staircase," were adapted for cinema.
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C.
Cordelia Whewell
Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
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D.
Margaret Eva Watson
Margaret Eva Watson was the wife of Herbert Hoover Jr., an engineer and businessman and the elder son of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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E.
Elinor Mead
Elinor Mead was an American artist and intellectual known as the wife and close collaborator of novelist and critic William Dean Howells.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate in Chemistry
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chemist ⓘ crystallographer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Copley Medal
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Lomonosov Gold Medal ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry ⓘ Order of Merit ⓘ Royal Medal ⓘ |
| birthName | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-05-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-07-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Somerville College, Oxford
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| employer |
Somerville College, Oxford
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName |
Crowfoot
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Hodgkin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
X-ray crystallography
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chemistry ⓘ structural biology ⓘ |
| givenName | Dorothy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advancing X-ray crystallography of biomolecules
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structure determination of insulin ⓘ structure determination of penicillin ⓘ structure determination of vitamin B12 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
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Royal Society ⓘ |
| name |
Dorothy Hodgkin
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surface form:
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
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| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
determination of the structure of insulin
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determination of the structure of penicillin ⓘ determination of the structure of vitamin B12 ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cairo ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Shipston-on-Stour ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chancellor of the University of Bristol ⓘ |
| religion | Quakerism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Thomas Lionel Hodgkin ⓘ |
| workLocation | Oxford ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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