Susanna Shahn
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Susanna Shahn is an American artist and illustrator, known as the daughter of social realist painters Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn and for her own contributions to the visual arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Susanna Shahn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12757159 — 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: Susanna Shahn Context triple: [Bernarda Bryson Shahn, hasChild, Susanna Shahn]
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A.
Nancy Kurshan
Nancy Kurshan is an American activist and writer best known as a co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and for her work in prison abolition and social justice movements.
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B.
Margaret Shenberg
Margaret Shenberg was the first wife of influential Hollywood film producer and studio executive Louis B. Mayer.
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C.
Shoshana Rosenblum
Shoshana Rosenblum was the wife of Israeli journalist and politician Herzl Rosenblum (Herzl Vardi), associated with the early political and public life of the State of Israel.
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D.
Susan H. Schulman
Susan H. Schulman is an American theatre director known for her work on major Broadway musicals and plays, including the acclaimed 1991 production of "The Secret Garden."
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E.
Susan Kohner
Susan Kohner is an American former actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role in the 1959 film "Imitation of Life."
- 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: Susanna Shahn Target entity description: Susanna Shahn is an American artist and illustrator, known as the daughter of social realist painters Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn and for her own contributions to the visual arts.
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A.
Nancy Kurshan
Nancy Kurshan is an American activist and writer best known as a co-founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and for her work in prison abolition and social justice movements.
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B.
Margaret Shenberg
Margaret Shenberg was the first wife of influential Hollywood film producer and studio executive Louis B. Mayer.
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C.
Shoshana Rosenblum
Shoshana Rosenblum was the wife of Israeli journalist and politician Herzl Rosenblum (Herzl Vardi), associated with the early political and public life of the State of Israel.
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D.
Susan H. Schulman
Susan H. Schulman is an American theatre director known for her work on major Broadway musicals and plays, including the acclaimed 1991 production of "The Secret Garden."
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E.
Susan Kohner
Susan Kohner is an American former actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role in the 1959 film "Imitation of Life."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American artist
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artist ⓘ human ⓘ illustrator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American (via paternal heritage) ⓘ |
| father | Ben Shahn ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | visual arts ⓘ |
| genre | illustration ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceFrom |
Ben Shahn
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Bernarda Bryson Shahn ⓘ |
| hasRole |
daughter of Ben Shahn
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daughter of Bernarda Bryson Shahn ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Bernarda Bryson Shahn ⓘ |
| movement | social realism (familial/artistic context) ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Shahn family ⓘ |
| notableFor | contributions to the visual arts ⓘ |
| notableWork | book illustration (general) ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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illustrator ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| relative |
Ben Shahn
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Bernarda Bryson Shahn ⓘ |
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: Susanna Shahn Description of subject: Susanna Shahn is an American artist and illustrator, known as the daughter of social realist painters Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn and for her own contributions to the visual arts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.