Kao Kalia Yang
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Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American writer, memoirist, and public speaker known for her works on refugee experiences, family, and identity, including "The Latehomecomer" and "The Song Poet."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kao Kalia Yang canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5808747 — 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: Kao Kalia Yang Context triple: [Kao, hasNotableBearer, Kao Kalia Yang]
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A.
Yuh Nung Jan
Yuh Nung Jan is a prominent neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying neural development and function.
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B.
Yun Chi Chung
Yun Chi Chung is best known as the former wife of American comedian and actor Redd Foxx.
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C.
Ken Kao
Ken Kao is an American film producer known for backing a range of independent and auteur-driven projects.
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D.
Li Fang-Kuei
Li Fang-Kuei was a prominent Chinese linguist and philologist known for his influential work on the historical phonology of Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages.
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E.
Son Kee-chung
Son Kee-chung was a Korean marathon runner who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics while competing under the Japanese name Son Kitei during Japan’s colonial rule over Korea.
- 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: Kao Kalia Yang Target entity description: Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American writer, memoirist, and public speaker known for her works on refugee experiences, family, and identity, including "The Latehomecomer" and "The Song Poet."
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A.
Yuh Nung Jan
Yuh Nung Jan is a prominent neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying neural development and function.
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B.
Yun Chi Chung
Yun Chi Chung is best known as the former wife of American comedian and actor Redd Foxx.
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C.
Ken Kao
Ken Kao is an American film producer known for backing a range of independent and auteur-driven projects.
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D.
Li Fang-Kuei
Li Fang-Kuei was a prominent Chinese linguist and philologist known for his influential work on the historical phonology of Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages.
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E.
Son Kee-chung
Son Kee-chung was a Korean marathon runner who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics while competing under the Japanese name Son Kitei during Japan’s colonial rule over Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's author
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essayist ⓘ human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
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Minnesota Book Award ⓘ National Book Critics Circle Award finalist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Carleton College
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Columbia University School of the Arts ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Hmong ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Hmong history
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family ⓘ identity ⓘ immigration ⓘ refugee experiences ⓘ war and displacement ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ young adult literature ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of a company for Hmong translation and consulting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Hmong American literature
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linked to:
Hmong literature
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| notableFor |
exploring themes of family and identity
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public speaking on refugee and immigrant stories ⓘ writing about Hmong refugee experiences ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Map Into the World
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From the Tops of the Trees ⓘ Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir ⓘ The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir ⓘ The Most Beautiful Thing ⓘ The Rock in My Throat ⓘ The Shared Room ⓘ The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father ⓘ Yang Warriors ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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memoirist ⓘ public speaker ⓘ teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Minnesota ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
Hmong culture
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intergenerational memory ⓘ refugee life in the United States ⓘ |
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: Kao Kalia Yang Description of subject: Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American writer, memoirist, and public speaker known for her works on refugee experiences, family, and identity, including "The Latehomecomer" and "The Song Poet."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.