Onora
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Onora is a British philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics, and for serving as a crossbench member of the UK House of Lords.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Onora canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6249994 — 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: Onora Context triple: [Onora O’Neill, givenName, Onora]
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Orpha
Orpha is a variant spelling of the biblical name Orpah, a minor character mentioned in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible.
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Oona
Oona O’Neill was an American socialite and actress best known as the fourth wife of legendary filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and the daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill.
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C.
Corinna
Corinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Boeotia, renowned for her choral poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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D.
Agathé
Agathé is the ancient Greek name for the historic Mediterranean port city now known as Agde in southern France.
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E.
Charis
Charis is one of the three central women in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Robber Bride," known for her gentle, spiritual nature and complex personal history shaped by trauma and reinvention.
- 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: Onora Target entity description: Onora is a British philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics, and for serving as a crossbench member of the UK House of Lords.
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A.
Orpha
Orpha is a variant spelling of the biblical name Orpah, a minor character mentioned in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Oona
Oona O’Neill was an American socialite and actress best known as the fourth wife of legendary filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and the daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill.
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C.
Corinna
Corinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Boeotia, renowned for her choral poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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D.
Agathé
Agathé is the ancient Greek name for the historic Mediterranean port city now known as Agde in southern France.
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E.
Charis
Charis is one of the three central women in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Robber Bride," known for her gentle, spiritual nature and complex personal history shaped by trauma and reinvention.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bioethicist
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human ⓘ member of the House of Lords ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
bioethics
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ethics ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture
NERFINISHED
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Holberg Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Kant Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | John Rawls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Somerville College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | O'Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bioethics
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ethics ⓘ philosophy of Immanuel Kant ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Onora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Baroness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix |
CBE
NERFINISHED
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FBA NERFINISHED ⓘ FMedSci NERFINISHED ⓘ FRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
service as a crossbench peer in the House of Lords
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work on Kantian ethics ⓘ work on global justice ⓘ work on trust and autonomy in bioethics ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academy of Medical Sciences
NERFINISHED
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British Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ Crossbench NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Lords ⓘ Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Onora O'Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
NERFINISHED
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Bounds of Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ Constructions of Reason NERFINISHED ⓘ Faces of Hunger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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philosopher ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | crossbench life peer in the House of Lords ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Onora Description of subject: Onora is a British philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics, and for serving as a crossbench member of the UK House of Lords.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.