Ann Dunham
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Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist and development specialist best known as the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ann Dunham canonical | 22 |
| Stanley Ann Dunham | 2 |
| Barack Obama’s mother Ann Dunham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15254 — 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: Ann Dunham Context triple: [Barack Obama, mother, Ann Dunham]
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A.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson is an American physicist and trailblazing academic leader renowned for her pioneering research in theoretical physics and for being one of the first Black women to earn a Ph.D. from MIT.
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B.
Linda Salzman Sagan
Linda Salzman Sagan is an American artist and writer best known for co-designing the Pioneer plaque and contributing to other interstellar message projects alongside Carl Sagan.
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C.
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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D.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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E.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
- 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: Ann Dunham Target entity description: Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist and development specialist best known as the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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A.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson is an American physicist and trailblazing academic leader renowned for her pioneering research in theoretical physics and for being one of the first Black women to earn a Ph.D. from MIT.
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B.
Linda Salzman Sagan
Linda Salzman Sagan is an American artist and writer best known for co-designing the Pioneer plaque and contributing to other interstellar message projects alongside Carl Sagan.
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C.
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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D.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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E.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ann Dunham Description of subject: Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist and development specialist best known as the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Barack Obama’s mother Ann Dunham
this entity surface form:
Stanley Ann Dunham
subject surface form:
Malia Obama
subject surface form:
Ann Dunham
this entity surface form:
Stanley Ann Dunham
subject surface form:
Maya Soetoro-Ng