Alan Hodgkin
E81573
Alan Hodgkin was a British physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membranes and the generation of nerve impulses.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | 7 |
| Alan Hodgkin canonical | 4 |
| Sir Alan Hodgkin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T650648 — 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: Alan Hodgkin Context triple: [Telecommunications Research Establishment, notablePerson, Alan Hodgkin]
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A.
Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven was a Dutch physiologist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing the string galvanometer and pioneering the modern electrocardiogram (ECG).
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B.
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emil du Bois-Reymond was a 19th-century German physiologist renowned for his pioneering work on bioelectricity and the physiology of the nervous system.
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C.
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
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D.
John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist and Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of insulin whose work fundamentally transformed the treatment of diabetes.
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E.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz was a 19th-century German physician and physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to physiology, optics, acoustics, and the conservation of energy.
- 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: Alan Hodgkin Target entity description: Alan Hodgkin was a British physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membranes and the generation of nerve impulses.
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A.
Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven was a Dutch physiologist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing the string galvanometer and pioneering the modern electrocardiogram (ECG).
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B.
Emil du Bois-Reymond
Emil du Bois-Reymond was a 19th-century German physiologist renowned for his pioneering work on bioelectricity and the physiology of the nervous system.
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C.
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
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D.
John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist and Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of insulin whose work fundamentally transformed the treatment of diabetes.
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E.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz was a 19th-century German physician and physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to physiology, optics, acoustics, and the conservation of energy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Alan Hodgkin Description of subject: Alan Hodgkin was a British physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the ionic mechanisms of nerve cell membranes and the generation of nerve impulses.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
this entity surface form:
Sir Alan Hodgkin
this entity surface form:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
this entity surface form:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
this entity surface form:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
this entity surface form:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
this entity surface form:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
this entity surface form:
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin