Domagk
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Domagk is the surname of Gerhard Domagk, the German pathologist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the first commercially available antibacterial sulfonamide drug.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Domagk canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6351982 — 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: Domagk Context triple: [Gerhard Domagk, familyName, Domagk]
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A.
Tekeze Dam
Tekeze Dam is a major arch dam in northern Ethiopia, built on the Tekeze River to generate hydroelectric power and regulate water flow.
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B.
Sennar Dam
Sennar Dam is a major early-20th-century irrigation and hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile in Sudan, crucial for agricultural development in the Gezira region.
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C.
Diama Dam
Diama Dam is a low-head dam on the lower Senegal River near the Senegal–Mauritania border, built primarily to prevent saltwater intrusion and support irrigation and navigation in the region.
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D.
Itezhi-Tezhi Dam
Itezhi-Tezhi Dam is a major hydroelectric and water-regulation dam in Zambia that helps control flows and generate power along the Kafue River system, a key tributary of the Zambezi.
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E.
Zola Dam
Zola Dam is a 19th-century hydraulic engineering project in Aix-en-Provence, France, designed by engineer François Zola and notable as an early example of modern dam construction.
- 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: Domagk Target entity description: Domagk is the surname of Gerhard Domagk, the German pathologist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the first commercially available antibacterial sulfonamide drug.
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A.
Tekeze Dam
Tekeze Dam is a major arch dam in northern Ethiopia, built on the Tekeze River to generate hydroelectric power and regulate water flow.
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B.
Sennar Dam
Sennar Dam is a major early-20th-century irrigation and hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile in Sudan, crucial for agricultural development in the Gezira region.
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C.
Diama Dam
Diama Dam is a low-head dam on the lower Senegal River near the Senegal–Mauritania border, built primarily to prevent saltwater intrusion and support irrigation and navigation in the region.
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D.
Itezhi-Tezhi Dam
Itezhi-Tezhi Dam is a major hydroelectric and water-regulation dam in Zambia that helps control flows and generate power along the Kafue River system, a key tributary of the Zambezi.
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E.
Zola Dam
Zola Dam is a 19th-century hydraulic engineering project in Aix-en-Provence, France, designed by engineer François Zola and notable as an early example of modern dam construction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | German ⓘ |
| contributedTo | development of antimicrobial chemotherapy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| developed | Prontosil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Bayer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IG Farben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Domagk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
microbiology
ⓘ
pathology ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerhard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Domagk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableFor | discovery of the first commercially available antibacterial sulfonamide drug ⓘ |
| notableWork | discovery of Prontosil ⓘ |
| occupation |
bacteriologist
ⓘ
pathologist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | pioneered clinical use of sulfonamide antibacterial drugs ⓘ |
| studied | medicine ⓘ |
| usedBy | Gerhard Domagk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Germany
ⓘ
Wuppertal 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: Domagk Description of subject: Domagk is the surname of Gerhard Domagk, the German pathologist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the first commercially available antibacterial sulfonamide drug.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.