Marian Shields Robinson
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Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marian Shields Robinson canonical | 5 |
| Marian Lois Shields | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T225376 — 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: Marian Shields Robinson Context triple: [Malia Obama, relative, Marian Shields Robinson]
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A.
Betty Shannon
Betty Shannon was an American mathematician and computer programmer known for her work at Bell Labs and as the wife and intellectual partner of information theory pioneer Claude Shannon.
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B.
Jean Kennedy Smith
Jean Kennedy Smith was an American diplomat, humanitarian, and member of the Kennedy political family who served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland and founded the arts and disability organization VSA.
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C.
Tricia Nixon Cox
Tricia Nixon Cox is the elder daughter of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, known for her prominent role as a White House hostess and her highly publicized 1971 Rose Garden wedding.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Maureen Reagan
Maureen Reagan was an American political activist, television and radio personality, and the eldest daughter of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 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: Marian Shields Robinson Target entity description: Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
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A.
Betty Shannon
Betty Shannon was an American mathematician and computer programmer known for her work at Bell Labs and as the wife and intellectual partner of information theory pioneer Claude Shannon.
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B.
Jean Kennedy Smith
Jean Kennedy Smith was an American diplomat, humanitarian, and member of the Kennedy political family who served as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland and founded the arts and disability organization VSA.
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C.
Tricia Nixon Cox
Tricia Nixon Cox is the elder daughter of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, known for her prominent role as a White House hostess and her highly publicized 1971 Rose Garden wedding.
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D.
Mary Quinn Sullivan
Mary Quinn Sullivan was an American art collector and patron who played a key role in the early promotion and institutional support of modern art in the United States.
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E.
Maureen Reagan
Maureen Reagan was an American political activist, television and radio personality, and the eldest daughter of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Marian Shields Robinson Description of subject: Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Malia Obama
this entity surface form:
Marian Lois Shields