Vesna Vulović
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Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant known for surviving a record-breaking fall from an airplane without a parachute in 1972.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vesna Vulović canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5457750 — 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: Vesna Vulović Context triple: [1984 Winter Olympics, cauldronLighter, Vesna Vulović]
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A.
Olgivanna Lazović
Olgivanna Lazović was a Montenegrin-born dancer and writer best known as the third wife of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a key organizer of his Taliesin Fellowship.
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B.
Janica Kostelić
Janica Kostelić is a Croatian alpine skier widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport, known especially for winning multiple gold medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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C.
Nadežda Petrović
Nadežda Petrović was a pioneering Serbian modernist painter and war nurse, regarded as one of the most important figures in early 20th-century Serbian art.
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D.
Nataša Kandić
Nataša Kandić is a Serbian human rights activist known for documenting war crimes and advocating for justice and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia.
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E.
Carmen Pavlovic
Carmen Pavlovic is a theatre producer best known for leading the stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! into an award-winning Broadway musical.
- 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: Vesna Vulović Target entity description: Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant known for surviving a record-breaking fall from an airplane without a parachute in 1972.
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A.
Olgivanna Lazović
Olgivanna Lazović was a Montenegrin-born dancer and writer best known as the third wife of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a key organizer of his Taliesin Fellowship.
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B.
Janica Kostelić
Janica Kostelić is a Croatian alpine skier widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport, known especially for winning multiple gold medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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C.
Nadežda Petrović
Nadežda Petrović was a pioneering Serbian modernist painter and war nurse, regarded as one of the most important figures in early 20th-century Serbian art.
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D.
Nataša Kandić
Nataša Kandić is a Serbian human rights activist known for documenting war crimes and advocating for justice and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia.
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E.
Carmen Pavlovic
Carmen Pavlovic is a theatre producer best known for leading the stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! into an award-winning Broadway musical.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation accident survivor
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flight attendant ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Guinness World Record certificate ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| causeOfInjury | aircraft explosion and subsequent fall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Serbia
ⓘ
Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-01-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-12-23 ⓘ |
| employer | JAT Yugoslav Airlines ⓘ |
| era |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Serbs ⓘ |
| event | JAT Flight 367 mid-air explosion ⓘ |
| fallHeight |
over 10,000 meters
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over 30,000 feet ⓘ |
| familyName | Vulović ⓘ |
| givenName | Vesna ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87 ⓘ |
| injury |
multiple fractures
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spinal injuries ⓘ temporary paralysis ⓘ |
| knownAs | the woman who fell from the sky ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Serbian ⓘ |
| name | Vesna Vulović ⓘ |
| nationality | Serbian ⓘ |
| notableFor | surviving the highest fall without a parachute ⓘ |
| notableWork | public speaking about her survival ⓘ |
| occupation | flight attendant ⓘ |
| partOf | history of aviation accidents and incidents ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Belgrade
ⓘ
FPR Yugoslavia ⓘ
linked to:
Yugoslavia
PR Serbia ⓘ
linked to:
Serbia
|
| placeOfDeath |
Belgrade
ⓘ
Serbia ⓘ |
| positionInAircraft | cabin crew member on JAT Flight 367 ⓘ |
| recordHeld | Guinness World Record for highest fall survived without a parachute ⓘ |
| religion | Serbian Orthodox Church ⓘ |
| residence | Belgrade ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| survivedEvent | fall from an airplane in 1972 ⓘ |
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: Vesna Vulović Description of subject: Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant known for surviving a record-breaking fall from an airplane without a parachute in 1972.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.