Jean-Pierre Changeux
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Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist and molecular biologist renowned for his work on allosteric proteins and the neurobiological basis of consciousness.
All labels observed (1)
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| Jean-Pierre Changeux canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11120921 — 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: Jean-Pierre Changeux Context triple: [Jacques Monod, coAuthor, Jean-Pierre Changeux]
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Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard was an American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering research on how neurons communicate via chemical signals in the brain.
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B.
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene is a French cognitive neuroscientist renowned for his research on numerical cognition, consciousness, and the neural basis of reading and learning.
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C.
Alain Prochiantz
Alain Prochiantz is a French neurobiologist renowned for his pioneering work on neuronal development and brain plasticity.
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D.
Terrence Sejnowski
Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneering computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher known for foundational contributions to neural networks and learning algorithms.
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E.
Torsten N. Wiesel
Torsten N. Wiesel is a Nobel Prize–winning neurophysiologist renowned for his pioneering work on the visual system and the development of the brain’s visual cortex.
- 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: Jean-Pierre Changeux Target entity description: Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist and molecular biologist renowned for his work on allosteric proteins and the neurobiological basis of consciousness.
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A.
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard was an American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering research on how neurons communicate via chemical signals in the brain.
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B.
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene is a French cognitive neuroscientist renowned for his research on numerical cognition, consciousness, and the neural basis of reading and learning.
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C.
Alain Prochiantz
Alain Prochiantz is a French neurobiologist renowned for his pioneering work on neuronal development and brain plasticity.
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D.
Terrence Sejnowski
Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneering computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher known for foundational contributions to neural networks and learning algorithms.
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E.
Torsten N. Wiesel
Torsten N. Wiesel is a Nobel Prize–winning neurophysiologist renowned for his pioneering work on the visual system and the development of the brain’s visual cortex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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molecular biologist ⓘ neuroscientist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Balzan Prize
NERFINISHED
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CNRS Gold Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Gairdner Foundation International Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Japan Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-04-06 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Jacques Monod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Paris
NERFINISHED
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École normale supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Collège de France
NERFINISHED
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Institut Pasteur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Changeux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
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molecular biology ⓘ neurophilosophy ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean-Pierre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
biology
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neurobiology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
allosteric proteins
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allosteric transitions in proteins ⓘ nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ⓘ theories of neuronal epigenesis ⓘ work on the neurobiological basis of consciousness ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des sciences morales et politiques
NERFINISHED
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European Molecular Biology Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ Académie des Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
French Academy of Sciences
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| name | Jean-Pierre Changeux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
L’Homme neuronal
NERFINISHED
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Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Domont, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
laboratory director at Institut Pasteur
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professor at Collège de France ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
allosteric regulation
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consciousness ⓘ neuroethics ⓘ synaptic transmission ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jean-Pierre Changeux Description of subject: Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist and molecular biologist renowned for his work on allosteric proteins and the neurobiological basis of consciousness.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.