Behring
E46874
German-language surname
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
human
immunologist
physician
physiologist
surname
Behring is a German surname most notably associated with Emil Adolf von Behring, the pioneering physiologist and first Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Behring canonical | 2 |
| tetanus antitoxin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T370327 — 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: Behring Context triple: [Emil Adolf von Behring, familyName, Behring]
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A.
Fleming
Fleming is a surname most famously associated with Ian Fleming, the British author who created the James Bond spy novels.
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B.
Aptheker
Aptheker is the surname of a family notably associated with American Marxist historians and political activists, including Bettina Aptheker.
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C.
Andriette Nobel
Andriette Nobel was the mother of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, engineer, and founder of the Nobel Prizes.
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D.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
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E.
Nourse
Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
- 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: Behring Target entity description: Behring is a German surname most notably associated with Emil Adolf von Behring, the pioneering physiologist and first Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy.
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A.
Fleming
Fleming is a surname most famously associated with Ian Fleming, the British author who created the James Bond spy novels.
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B.
Aptheker
Aptheker is the surname of a family notably associated with American Marxist historians and political activists, including Bettina Aptheker.
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C.
Andriette Nobel
Andriette Nobel was the mother of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, engineer, and founder of the Nobel Prizes.
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D.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
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E.
Nourse
Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language surname
ⓘ
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ human ⓘ immunologist ⓘ physician ⓘ physiologist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
ⓘ
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ⓘ Prussian Order of the Crown ⓘ
surface form:
Order of the Crown (Prussia)
Order of the Red Eagle ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Marburg ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| citizenship | German Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Prussia
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Prussia
|
| dateOfBirth | 1854-03-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1917-03-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Prussian Army Medical College
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy for Military Medical Education in Berlin
|
| employer | University of Marburg ⓘ |
| familyName | Behring self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
immunology
ⓘ
medicine ⓘ physiology ⓘ |
| givenName |
Adolf
ⓘ
Emil ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Robert Koch ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Emil Adolf von Behring ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Paul Ehrlich
ⓘ
Robert Koch ⓘ |
| knownFor |
diphtheria antitoxin
ⓘ
serum therapy ⓘ Behring self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
tetanus antitoxin
|
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| militaryRank | army doctor ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | von ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
development of passive immunization against diphtheria
ⓘ
first Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on antitoxins
ⓘ
research on serum therapy for infectious diseases ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hansdorf, Province of Prussia ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Marburg
ⓘ
surface form:
Marburg, German Empire
|
| positionHeld | professor of hygiene at the University of Marburg ⓘ |
| spouse | Else Spinola ⓘ |
| usedAsFamilyNameIn |
Europe
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berlin
ⓘ
Marburg ⓘ |
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: Behring Description of subject: Behring is a German surname most notably associated with Emil Adolf von Behring, the pioneering physiologist and first Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Emil Adolf von Behring