Soetoro-Ng
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Soetoro-Ng is the hyphenated surname of Maya Soetoro-Ng, an Indonesian-American educator and the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soetoro | 3 |
| Soetoro-Ng canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2075292 — 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: Soetoro-Ng Context triple: [Maya Soetoro-Ng, familyName, Soetoro-Ng]
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A.
Lolo Soetoro
Lolo Soetoro was an Indonesian geographer and government official best known as the stepfather of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Hartono Dharsono
Hartono Dharsono was an Indonesian military officer and diplomat who became the inaugural Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), helping shape the organization's early development.
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C.
Sutomo
Sutomo, better known as Bung Tomo, was an Indonesian nationalist leader and radio orator who became a symbol of resistance during the Indonesian National Revolution.
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D.
Kusno Sosrodihardjo
Kusno Sosrodihardjo is the birth name of Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia and a leading figure in the country’s independence movement.
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E.
Guntur Sukarnoputra
Guntur Sukarnoputra is an Indonesian public figure best known as one of the sons of Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno.
- 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: Soetoro-Ng Target entity description: Soetoro-Ng is the hyphenated surname of Maya Soetoro-Ng, an Indonesian-American educator and the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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A.
Lolo Soetoro
Lolo Soetoro was an Indonesian geographer and government official best known as the stepfather of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Hartono Dharsono
Hartono Dharsono was an Indonesian military officer and diplomat who became the inaugural Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), helping shape the organization's early development.
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C.
Sutomo
Sutomo, better known as Bung Tomo, was an Indonesian nationalist leader and radio orator who became a symbol of resistance during the Indonesian National Revolution.
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D.
Kusno Sosrodihardjo
Kusno Sosrodihardjo is the birth name of Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia and a leading figure in the country’s independence movement.
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E.
Guntur Sukarnoputra
Guntur Sukarnoputra is an Indonesian public figure best known as one of the sons of Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
educator ⓘ hyphenated surname ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Maya Soetoro-Ng
ⓘ
surface form:
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng
|
| associatedWith | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hawaii ⓘ |
| birthName | Maya Kasandra Soetoro ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| componentSurname |
Ng
ⓘ
Soetoro-Ng self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Soetoro
|
| countryOfUse |
Indonesia
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicity |
American
ⓘ
Indonesian ⓘ |
| familyName | Soetoro-Ng self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| father | Lolo Soetoro ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
multicultural education ⓘ peace education ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Maya ⓘ |
| hasHyphenatedSurname | Soetoro-Ng self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasSurnamePart |
Ng
ⓘ
Soetoro-Ng self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Soetoro
|
| languageOfOrigin |
Chinese (via Ng)
ⓘ
Indonesian ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Indonesian ⓘ |
| mother | Ann Dunham ⓘ |
| nationality | Indonesian-American ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Maya Soetoro-Ng ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the maternal half-sister of Barack Obama ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
ⓘ
educator ⓘ |
| parentOf | two daughters ⓘ |
| relative | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| sibling | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| spouse | Konrad Ng ⓘ |
| usedBy | Maya Soetoro-Ng ⓘ |
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: Soetoro-Ng Description of subject: Soetoro-Ng is the hyphenated surname of Maya Soetoro-Ng, an Indonesian-American educator and the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Maya Soetoro-Ng
subject surface form:
Maya Soetoro-Ng
subject surface form:
Maya Soetoro-Ng
this entity surface form:
Soetoro
this entity surface form:
Soetoro
subject surface form:
Lolo Soetoro
this entity surface form:
Soetoro