Trevor Back
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Trevor Back is a researcher known for co-authoring the landmark 2021 Nature paper on AlphaFold, DeepMind’s breakthrough AI system for protein structure prediction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trevor Back canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8482653 — 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: Trevor Back Context triple: [Jumper et al., Nature 2021, hasAuthor, Trevor Back]
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A.
Trevor Walters
Trevor Walters is a British lovers rock reggae singer known for his smooth vocal style and popular 1980s covers of soul and pop songs.
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B.
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston is an Australian linguist renowned for his pioneering research and documentation of Auslan, the sign language of the Australian Deaf community.
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C.
Trevor Gardner
Trevor Gardner was a prominent U.S. defense official and aerospace executive known for his influential role in advancing American missile and space programs during the Cold War.
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D.
Trevor Blackwell
Trevor Blackwell is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and roboticist best known as a co-founder of the startup accelerator Y Combinator and for his work in humanoid and self-balancing robots.
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E.
Trevor Garfield
Trevor Garfield is the troubled high school teacher protagonist of the 1997 crime drama film "One Eight Seven," portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson.
- 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: Trevor Back Target entity description: Trevor Back is a researcher known for co-authoring the landmark 2021 Nature paper on AlphaFold, DeepMind’s breakthrough AI system for protein structure prediction.
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A.
Trevor Walters
Trevor Walters is a British lovers rock reggae singer known for his smooth vocal style and popular 1980s covers of soul and pop songs.
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B.
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston is an Australian linguist renowned for his pioneering research and documentation of Auslan, the sign language of the Australian Deaf community.
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C.
Trevor Gardner
Trevor Gardner was a prominent U.S. defense official and aerospace executive known for his influential role in advancing American missile and space programs during the Cold War.
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D.
Trevor Blackwell
Trevor Blackwell is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and roboticist best known as a co-founder of the startup accelerator Y Combinator and for his work in humanoid and self-balancing robots.
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E.
Trevor Garfield
Trevor Garfield is the troubled high school teacher protagonist of the 1997 crime drama film "One Eight Seven," portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
researcher
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scientist ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | 2021 Nature paper on AlphaFold ⓘ |
| contributedTo | AlphaFold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | DeepMind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
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computational biology ⓘ protein structure prediction ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-authoring the 2021 Nature paper on AlphaFold
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research in artificial intelligence for science ⓘ work on protein structure prediction ⓘ |
| notableWork | 2021 Nature paper on AlphaFold ⓘ |
| researchArea |
deep learning applications in structural biology
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machine learning for biology ⓘ |
| workAffiliation | DeepMind 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: Trevor Back Description of subject: Trevor Back is a researcher known for co-authoring the landmark 2021 Nature paper on AlphaFold, DeepMind’s breakthrough AI system for protein structure prediction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.