British anti-Lewisite
E942092
British anti-Lewisite is a chelating agent and medical antidote primarily used to treat poisoning by arsenic-based chemical warfare agents and heavy metals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| British anti-Lewisite canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11729497 — 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: British anti-Lewisite Context triple: [lewisite, antidote, British anti-Lewisite]
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A.
Fleming
Fleming is a surname most famously associated with Ian Fleming, the British author who created the James Bond spy novels.
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B.
Coombs
Coombs is the surname of Princess Claire of Belgium, a member of the Belgian royal family originally from the United Kingdom.
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C.
Coombs
Coombs is a small rural community on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for its popular Old Country Market and quirky “goats on the roof” attraction.
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D.
Balemartine
Balemartine is a small coastal village located on the island of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides.
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E.
Wessely
Wessely is a Jewish family name most notably associated with the 18th-century Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) figure Naphtali Herz Wessely.
- 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: British anti-Lewisite Target entity description: British anti-Lewisite is a chelating agent and medical antidote primarily used to treat poisoning by arsenic-based chemical warfare agents and heavy metals.
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A.
Fleming
Fleming is a surname most famously associated with Ian Fleming, the British author who created the James Bond spy novels.
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B.
Coombs
Coombs is the surname of Princess Claire of Belgium, a member of the Belgian royal family originally from the United Kingdom.
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C.
Coombs
Coombs is a small rural community on central Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, known for its popular Old Country Market and quirky “goats on the roof” attraction.
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D.
Balemartine
Balemartine is a small coastal village located on the island of Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides.
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E.
Wessely
Wessely is a Jewish family name most notably associated with the 18th-century Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) figure Naphtali Herz Wessely.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II-era drug
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antidote ⓘ chelating agent ⓘ organosulfur compound ⓘ pharmaceutical drug ⓘ |
| containsElement |
carbon
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hydrogen ⓘ oxygen ⓘ sulfur ⓘ |
| counteracts |
Lewisite
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arsenic-based chemical warfare agents ⓘ |
| developedBy | British biochemists ⓘ |
| developedDuring | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedInCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | BAL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdverseEffect |
headache
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hypertension ⓘ nausea ⓘ pain at injection site ⓘ tachycardia ⓘ vomiting ⓘ |
| hasAntidoteRoleFor |
antimony compounds
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arsenic compounds ⓘ bismuth compounds ⓘ gold compounds ⓘ lead compounds ⓘ mercury compounds ⓘ |
| hasChemicalName | dimercaprol ⓘ |
| hasContraindication | peanut allergy ⓘ |
| hasDiscoveryContext | defense against chemical warfare ⓘ |
| hasFunctionalGroup |
alcohol group
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thiol group ⓘ |
| hasMechanismOfAction |
chelates heavy metals
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forms stable complexes with metal ions ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryUse | treatment of arsenic poisoning ⓘ |
| hasUse |
treatment of Lewisite poisoning
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treatment of antimony poisoning ⓘ treatment of bismuth poisoning ⓘ treatment of gold poisoning ⓘ treatment of heavy metal poisoning ⓘ treatment of lead poisoning ⓘ treatment of mercury poisoning ⓘ |
| isFormulatedWith | peanut oil ⓘ |
| isListedAs | essential medicine in some military stockpiles ⓘ |
| isPredecessorOf |
dimercaptopropane sulfonate
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dimercaptosuccinic acid ⓘ |
| routeOfAdministration | intramuscular injection ⓘ |
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: British anti-Lewisite Description of subject: British anti-Lewisite is a chelating agent and medical antidote primarily used to treat poisoning by arsenic-based chemical warfare agents and heavy metals.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.