Clarissa
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Clarissa is the given first name of Clara Barton, the pioneering American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clarissa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3349683 — 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: Clarissa Context triple: [Clara Barton, givenName, Clarissa]
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A.
Pamela
Pamela is the given name of Pam Grier, the pioneering American actress celebrated for her iconic roles in 1970s blaxploitation films and later works like "Jackie Brown."
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B.
Marianne
Marianne was a 19th-century Dutch princess of the House of Orange-Nassau, known for her independent spirit, unconventional personal life, and extensive patronage of the arts and architecture.
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C.
Fanny Eden
Fanny Eden was a member of the British Eden family in colonial India, after whom the famous cricket ground Eden Gardens in Kolkata was named.
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D.
Charlotte Frank
Charlotte Frank is a German architect known for her work on the Federal Chancellery building in Berlin.
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E.
Celia
Celia is a 2020 Afrobeats and R&B studio album by Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage that blends contemporary African pop with global influences.
- 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: Clarissa Target entity description: Clarissa is the given first name of Clara Barton, the pioneering American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.
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A.
Pamela
Pamela is the given name of Pam Grier, the pioneering American actress celebrated for her iconic roles in 1970s blaxploitation films and later works like "Jackie Brown."
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B.
Marianne
Marianne was a 19th-century Dutch princess of the House of Orange-Nassau, known for her independent spirit, unconventional personal life, and extensive patronage of the arts and architecture.
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C.
Fanny Eden
Fanny Eden was a member of the British Eden family in colonial India, after whom the famous cricket ground Eden Gardens in Kolkata was named.
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D.
Charlotte Frank
Charlotte Frank is a German architect known for her work on the Federal Chancellery building in Berlin.
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E.
Celia
Celia is a 2020 Afrobeats and R&B studio album by Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage that blends contemporary African pop with global influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder
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human ⓘ humanitarian ⓘ nurse ⓘ social reformer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Clara Barton ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
North Cemetery, Oxford, Massachusetts
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surface form:
North Cemetery, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1821-12-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1912-04-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | local schools in Oxford, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Barton ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
disaster relief
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humanitarian aid ⓘ nursing ⓘ |
| founded | American Red Cross ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Clarissa self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Clara ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Angel of the Battlefield ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
David Barton
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Dorothea Barton ⓘ Sally Barton ⓘ Stephen Barton ⓘ Stephen Barton Jr. ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
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surface form:
International Red Cross movement
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| knownFor | pioneering battlefield nursing during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| movement |
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
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surface form:
Red Cross movement
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| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped identify missing and dead soldiers after the American Civil War ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding the American Red Cross ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leading American Red Cross disaster responses
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organizing relief for soldiers during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
humanitarian
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nurse ⓘ patent office clerk ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Oxford, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Oxford, Massachusetts, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Glen Echo, Maryland
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surface form:
Glen Echo, Maryland, United States
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| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| residence |
Glen Echo, Maryland
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surface form:
Glen Echo, Maryland, United States
Washington, D.C. ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| workedAt |
United States Patent and Trademark Office
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surface form:
United States Patent Office
|
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: Clarissa Description of subject: Clarissa is the given first name of Clara Barton, the pioneering American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Clarissa Harlowe Barton