Jerrold
E443770
Jerrold is the given name of J. Meinwald, an American chemist known for his influential work in chemical ecology and natural products chemistry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerrold canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4480964 — 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: Jerrold Context triple: [J. Meinwald, givenName, Jerrold]
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A.
Jerrald
Jerrald is the birth name of Jerry Goldsmith, the acclaimed American film and television composer known for his innovative and influential scores.
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B.
Randolf
Randolf is a surname most notably associated with Danish-American silent film actor Anders Randolf.
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C.
Erdman
Erdman is a masculine given name most notably borne by Disney story artist and screenwriter Erdman Penner.
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D.
Furthman
Furthman is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter Jules Furthman, known for his work on classic Hollywood films.
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E.
Everette
Everette is the given first name of E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
- 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: Jerrold Target entity description: Jerrold is the given name of J. Meinwald, an American chemist known for his influential work in chemical ecology and natural products chemistry.
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A.
Jerrald
Jerrald is the birth name of Jerry Goldsmith, the acclaimed American film and television composer known for his innovative and influential scores.
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B.
Randolf
Randolf is a surname most notably associated with Danish-American silent film actor Anders Randolf.
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C.
Erdman
Erdman is a masculine given name most notably borne by Disney story artist and screenwriter Erdman Penner.
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D.
Furthman
Furthman is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter Jules Furthman, known for his work on classic Hollywood films.
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E.
Everette
Everette is the given first name of E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemist
ⓘ
given name ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Medal of Science ⓘ Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | field of chemical ecology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-01-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-04-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Cornell University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Meinwald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemical ecology
ⓘ
natural products chemistry ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerrold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential work in chemical ecology
ⓘ
research on natural products ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Thomas Eisner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | chemist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ithaca, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jerrold Meinwald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Ithaca, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jerrold Description of subject: Jerrold is the given name of J. Meinwald, an American chemist known for his influential work in chemical ecology and natural products chemistry.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.