Weissman
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Weissman is a surname most prominently associated with Drew Weissman, the Nobel Prize–winning physician-scientist whose work on mRNA technology enabled the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weissman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6831352 — 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: Weissman Context triple: [Drew Weissman, familyName, Weissman]
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A.
Weissmann
Weissmann is a surname most notably associated with Franz Weissmann, a prominent Brazilian sculptor of Austrian origin known for his geometric abstract works.
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B.
Rob Weiss
Rob Weiss is an American television and film producer, writer, and director best known for his work on the HBO series "Entourage."
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C.
Jacob Weiss
Jacob Weiss is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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D.
John Weiss
John Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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E.
William Weiss
William Weiss is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various professionals and public figures across different fields.
- 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: Weissman Target entity description: Weissman is a surname most prominently associated with Drew Weissman, the Nobel Prize–winning physician-scientist whose work on mRNA technology enabled the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
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A.
Weissmann
Weissmann is a surname most notably associated with Franz Weissmann, a prominent Brazilian sculptor of Austrian origin known for his geometric abstract works.
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B.
Rob Weiss
Rob Weiss is an American television and film producer, writer, and director best known for his work on the HBO series "Entourage."
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C.
Jacob Weiss
Jacob Weiss is a personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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D.
John Weiss
John Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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E.
William Weiss
William Weiss is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various professionals and public figures across different fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
physician ⓘ scientist ⓘ surname ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
MD
ⓘ
PhD ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research NERFINISHED ⓘ Time 100 recognition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Katalin Karikó NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Katalin Karikó NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-09-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston University
ⓘ
Brandeis University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
immunology
ⓘ
mRNA technology ⓘ vaccine research ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Weissman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Drew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
German
ⓘ
Yiddish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | white man ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Drew Weissman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Weisman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Weissmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Weissmannn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
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development of Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of modified mRNA technology
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enabling mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of pseudouridine-modified mRNA ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lexington, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of medicine ⓘ |
| receivedNobelPrizeFor | discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
therapeutic applications of mRNA
ⓘ
vaccine platforms ⓘ |
| sharesNobelPrizeWith | Katalin Karikó NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfNobelPrize | 2023 ⓘ |
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: Weissman Description of subject: Weissman is a surname most prominently associated with Drew Weissman, the Nobel Prize–winning physician-scientist whose work on mRNA technology enabled the development of COVID-19 vaccines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.