Lasker Foundation
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The Lasker Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to recognizing and supporting outstanding achievements in medical research and public health.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lasker Foundation canonical | 17 |
| Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation | 2 |
| Lasker Foundation Board of Directors | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T507218 — 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: Lasker Foundation Context triple: [Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, sponsor, Lasker Foundation]
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A.
Lerner Family Foundation
The Lerner Family Foundation is a philanthropic organization established by the Lerner family to support charitable, educational, and community-focused initiatives.
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B.
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation is a major American family philanthropy that supports education, arts and culture, civic engagement, and social justice initiatives through grants and strategic investments.
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C.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a U.S.-based philanthropic nonprofit organization that funds research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics.
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D.
Koussevitzky Music Foundation
The Koussevitzky Music Foundation is an organization dedicated to supporting and commissioning contemporary classical music, continuing the artistic legacy of conductor and patron Serge Koussevitzky.
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E.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private philanthropic organization known for funding creative individuals and institutions through initiatives in areas such as social justice, climate solutions, and the arts.
- 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: Lasker Foundation Target entity description: The Lasker Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to recognizing and supporting outstanding achievements in medical research and public health.
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A.
Lerner Family Foundation
The Lerner Family Foundation is a philanthropic organization established by the Lerner family to support charitable, educational, and community-focused initiatives.
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B.
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation is a major American family philanthropy that supports education, arts and culture, civic engagement, and social justice initiatives through grants and strategic investments.
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C.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a U.S.-based philanthropic nonprofit organization that funds research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics.
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D.
Koussevitzky Music Foundation
The Koussevitzky Music Foundation is an organization dedicated to supporting and commissioning contemporary classical music, continuing the artistic legacy of conductor and patron Serge Koussevitzky.
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E.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a major private philanthropic organization known for funding creative individuals and institutions through initiatives in areas such as social justice, climate solutions, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medical research organization
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nonprofit organization ⓘ public health organization ⓘ |
| activity |
advocacy for medical research funding
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grantmaking ⓘ public education about medical research ⓘ |
| areaServed | global ⓘ |
| award |
Lasker Award
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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research ⓘ
surface form:
Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
Lasker Award for Public Service ⓘ
surface form:
Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award
Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award ⓘ Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science ⓘ
surface form:
Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
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| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| field |
medical research
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public health ⓘ |
| focus |
biomedical research
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public service in health ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Albert Lasker ⓘ |
| goal |
encourage investment in biomedical science
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improve human health ⓘ increase public understanding of medical research ⓘ |
| hasPart | Lasker Awards program ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Lasker Award
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surface form:
Lasker Awards
honoring contributions to public health ⓘ recognizing major advances in medical science ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| motto | America’s Nobels (nickname of its awards) ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Albert Lasker ⓘ |
| nonprofitStatus | 501(c)(3) organization ⓘ |
| notableAwardRecipients | many future Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine ⓘ |
| organizes |
public lectures on medical research
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scientific symposia ⓘ |
| purpose |
promotion of biomedical science
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recognition of outstanding achievements in medical research ⓘ support of public health achievements ⓘ |
| sector | nonprofit ⓘ |
| supports |
physicians
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public health leaders ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| topic |
biomedical innovation
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disease prevention ⓘ health policy ⓘ |
| website | https://laskerfoundation.org ⓘ |
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: Lasker Foundation Description of subject: The Lasker Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to recognizing and supporting outstanding achievements in medical research and public health.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lasker Foundation Board of Directors
this entity surface form:
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
this entity surface form:
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
subject surface form:
Lasker Award
subject surface form:
Lasker Award