Amelia Earhart
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Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and author who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and disappeared mysteriously during an attempted around-the-world flight in 1937.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T317974 — 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: Amelia Earhart Context triple: [Hubbard Medal, notableRecipient, Amelia Earhart]
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Lindbergh
Lindbergh is a prominent American surname most famously associated with aviator Charles Lindbergh and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author and pioneering aviator who collaborated with her husband Charles Lindbergh on historic flights and wrote the influential memoir "Gift from the Sea."
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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator famed for making the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
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Land Morrow Lindbergh
Land Morrow Lindbergh is one of the sons of famed American aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Anne Spencer Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh was the daughter of aviators Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose tragic kidnapping and death in infancy became one of the most infamous criminal cases of the 20th century.
- 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: Amelia Earhart Target entity description: Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and author who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and disappeared mysteriously during an attempted around-the-world flight in 1937.
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A.
Lindbergh
Lindbergh is a prominent American surname most famously associated with aviator Charles Lindbergh and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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B.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author and pioneering aviator who collaborated with her husband Charles Lindbergh on historic flights and wrote the influential memoir "Gift from the Sea."
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C.
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator famed for making the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
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D.
Land Morrow Lindbergh
Land Morrow Lindbergh is one of the sons of famed American aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Anne Spencer Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh was the daughter of aviators Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose tragic kidnapping and death in infancy became one of the most infamous criminal cases of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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aviator ⓘ human ⓘ pioneer of aviation ⓘ |
| aircraftFlown |
Lockheed Electra 10E
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Lockheed Vega ⓘ
surface form:
Lockheed Vega 5B
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| awardReceived |
Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor
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Distinguished Flying Cross ⓘ National Geographic Society Hubbard Medal ⓘ
surface form:
Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society
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| causeOfDisappearance | aircraft disappearance during around-the-world flight attempt ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1897-07-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDisappearance | 1937-07-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1931-02-07 ⓘ |
| declaredDead | 1939-01-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Hyde Park Academy High School ⓘ
surface form:
Hyde Park High School
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| employer | Purdue University ⓘ |
| familyName |
Amelia Earhart
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Earhart
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| fullName |
Amelia Earhart
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Amelia Mary Earhart
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| givenName | Amelia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for women in aviation
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mysterious disappearance in 1937 ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Ninety-Nines ⓘ |
| movement | women's rights movement ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean
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first woman to fly solo nonstop across the United States ⓘ promoted opportunities for women in aviation ⓘ set multiple aviation speed and distance records ⓘ |
| notableFlight |
attempted around-the-world flight in 1937
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solo nonstop flight across the United States from Los Angeles to Newark in 1932 ⓘ solo transatlantic flight from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland to near Londonderry, Northern Ireland in May 1932 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
20 Hrs., 40 Min.
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Last Flight ⓘ The Fun of It ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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aviator ⓘ nurse's aide ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Atchison, Kansas, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDisappearance | over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Atchison, Kansas, United States
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Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ
surface form:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ Des Moines, Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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| positionHeld |
career counselor for women at Purdue University
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first president of The Ninety-Nines ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
George Palmer Putnam
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surface form:
George P. Putnam
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| subjectOf | numerous books, films, and documentaries about her life and disappearance ⓘ |
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: Amelia Earhart Description of subject: Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and author who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and disappeared mysteriously during an attempted around-the-world flight in 1937.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Amelia Earhart 1928 Atlantic crossing (as passenger, Fokker F.VIIb-3m Friendship)
this entity surface form:
Amelia Mary Earhart
this entity surface form:
Earhart
this entity surface form:
Amelia Earhart solo transatlantic flight 1932
Daughters of the American Revolution (honorary member later in life)
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notableHonoraryMember
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Amelia Earhart
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subject surface form:
Daughters of the American Revolution
this entity surface form:
aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart
subject surface form:
Pratt & Whitney Wasp
this entity surface form:
Amelia Earhart (via Lockheed Vega)
subject surface form:
Harmon Trophy