Peter Medawar
E417415
Peter Medawar was a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on tissue graft rejection and the concept of acquired immunological tolerance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Medawar canonical | 2 |
| Sir Peter Medawar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4154123 — 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: Peter Medawar Context triple: [National Institute for Medical Research, employerOf, Peter Medawar]
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Harold Hodgkin
Harold Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the Hodgkin surname, which is associated with several prominent figures in science and medicine.
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B.
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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C.
Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty is an Australian immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his groundbreaking work on how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.
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D.
Robert Edwards
Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
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E.
César Milstein
César Milstein was an Argentine biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for co-developing the hybridoma technique for producing monoclonal antibodies, revolutionizing immunology and medical diagnostics.
- 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: Peter Medawar Target entity description: Peter Medawar was a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on tissue graft rejection and the concept of acquired immunological tolerance.
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A.
Harold Hodgkin
Harold Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the Hodgkin surname, which is associated with several prominent figures in science and medicine.
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B.
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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C.
Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty is an Australian immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his groundbreaking work on how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.
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D.
Robert Edwards
Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
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E.
César Milstein
César Milstein was an Argentine biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for co-developing the hybridoma technique for producing monoclonal antibodies, revolutionizing immunology and medical diagnostics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Peter Medawar Description of subject: Peter Medawar was a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on tissue graft rejection and the concept of acquired immunological tolerance.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sir Peter Medawar