He Jiankui
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He Jiankui is a Chinese biophysicist widely known for creating the first gene-edited babies using CRISPR, a move that sparked global ethical controversy and led to his imprisonment in China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| He Jiankui canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4975632 — 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: He Jiankui Context triple: [He (surname), hasNotableBearer, He Jiankui]
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A.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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B.
Pan Jianwei
Pan Jianwei is a leading Chinese quantum physicist renowned for his pioneering work in quantum communication and quantum computing.
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C.
Gabrielle Charpentier
Gabrielle Charpentier was the wife of French revolutionary leader Georges Danton, about whom relatively little is historically documented compared to her prominent husband.
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D.
Liwen Shao
Liwen Shao is a brilliant and ambitious Chinese businesswoman and technologist in the Pacific Rim universe, known for her pivotal role in developing advanced Jaeger drone technology.
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E.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
- 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: He Jiankui Target entity description: He Jiankui is a Chinese biophysicist widely known for creating the first gene-edited babies using CRISPR, a move that sparked global ethical controversy and led to his imprisonment in China.
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A.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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B.
Pan Jianwei
Pan Jianwei is a leading Chinese quantum physicist renowned for his pioneering work in quantum communication and quantum computing.
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C.
Gabrielle Charpentier
Gabrielle Charpentier was the wife of French revolutionary leader Georges Danton, about whom relatively little is historically documented compared to her prominent husband.
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D.
Liwen Shao
Liwen Shao is a brilliant and ambitious Chinese businesswoman and technologist in the Pacific Rim universe, known for her pivotal role in developing advanced Jaeger drone technology.
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E.
Yuhuai Wu
Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese scientist
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biophysicist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| aimedToConfer | HIV resistance in edited babies ⓘ |
| announced | birth of gene-edited twin girls in 2018 ⓘ |
| citizenship | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| controversyType | human germline editing ⓘ |
| convictedOf | illegal medical practice in China ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Stephen Quake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedGene | CCR5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Rice University
NERFINISHED
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Stanford University ⓘ University of Science and Technology of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Southern University of Science and Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethicsApprovalStatus | lacked proper ethical approval for human embryo editing ⓘ |
| familyName | He NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
CRISPR
NERFINISHED
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biophysics ⓘ genome editing ⓘ |
| fined | 3 million yuan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jiankui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| impact | triggered calls for moratorium on clinical germline editing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
CRISPR babies controversy
NERFINISHED
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creating the first gene-edited babies ⓘ human embryo genome editing ⓘ |
| legalOutcome | sentenced to prison in China ⓘ |
| name | He Jiankui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableWork | CRISPR editing of CCR5 gene in human embryos ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hunan, China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | associate professor at Southern University of Science and Technology ⓘ |
| prisonSentenceLength | 3 years ⓘ |
| professionalConsequence |
banned from conducting assisted reproductive technology work for a period in China
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dismissed from Southern University of Science and Technology ⓘ |
| publicAnnouncementMethod | YouTube videos ⓘ |
| publicAnnouncementVenue | Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing (2018) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasedFromPrison | 2022 ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
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HIV-related gene editing ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
global bioethics controversy
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international scientific condemnation ⓘ |
| usedTechnology | CRISPR-Cas9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfSentencing | 2019 ⓘ |
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: He Jiankui Description of subject: He Jiankui is a Chinese biophysicist widely known for creating the first gene-edited babies using CRISPR, a move that sparked global ethical controversy and led to his imprisonment in China.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
He (surname)