Werner Maas
E629009
Werner Maas was a microbiologist associated with the influential mid-20th-century Phage Group that helped establish modern molecular genetics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Werner Maas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6934338 — 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: Werner Maas Context triple: [Phage Group, hasMember, Werner Maas]
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A.
Peter Kohl
Peter Kohl is a German businessman and author best known as the son of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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B.
Georg Scholz
Georg Scholz was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity movement, known for his socially critical, realist depictions of Weimar-era society.
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C.
Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer is a German politician and former Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor, best known as a leading figure of the Green Party and a key architect of Germany’s foreign policy in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Kurt Schröder
Kurt Schröder was a German film composer known for scoring early 20th-century European films, including notable British historical dramas.
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E.
Christian Scholz
Christian Scholz is a German computer scientist and open-source developer known for his contributions to web technologies and social software.
- 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: Werner Maas Target entity description: Werner Maas was a microbiologist associated with the influential mid-20th-century Phage Group that helped establish modern molecular genetics.
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A.
Peter Kohl
Peter Kohl is a German businessman and author best known as the son of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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B.
Georg Scholz
Georg Scholz was a German painter associated with the New Objectivity movement, known for his socially critical, realist depictions of Weimar-era society.
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C.
Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer is a German politician and former Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor, best known as a leading figure of the Green Party and a key architect of Germany’s foreign policy in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Kurt Schröder
Kurt Schröder was a German film composer known for scoring early 20th-century European films, including notable British historical dramas.
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E.
Christian Scholz
Christian Scholz is a German computer scientist and open-source developer known for his contributions to web technologies and social software.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
microbiologist
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person ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
NERFINISHED
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Rockefeller University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Alfred Hershey
NERFINISHED
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Max Delbrück NERFINISHED ⓘ Salvador Luria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | establishment of modern molecular genetics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
NERFINISHED
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Rockefeller University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
microbiology
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molecular genetics ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | experimental microbiology ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Phage Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Phage Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to molecular genetics
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participation in the mid-20th-century Phage Group ⓘ research on bacteriophages ⓘ |
| studied |
bacterial genetics
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bacteriophage genetics ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Werner Maas Description of subject: Werner Maas was a microbiologist associated with the influential mid-20th-century Phage Group that helped establish modern molecular genetics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.