Carla Haden
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Carla Hayden is an American librarian and library administrator who became the first woman and first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carla Haden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9906935 — 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: Carla Haden Context triple: [Tanya Haden, notableRelative, Carla Haden]
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A.
Judee Sill
Judee Sill was an American singer-songwriter of the early 1970s known for her intricate, spiritually themed folk-pop compositions and her status as one of the first artists on David Geffen’s Asylum Records label.
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B.
Dolores Fullman
Dolores Fullman was the wife of American businessman and socialite John Jacob Astor VI, connecting her to the prominent Astor family.
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C.
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith was an American singer-songwriter known for her delicate vocals and narrative-driven blend of folk and country music, highlighted by songs like "Love at the Five and Dime" and "From a Distance."
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D.
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter celebrated for her influential work in country and folk music, renowned harmonies, and numerous Grammy-winning recordings.
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E.
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams is an American singer-songwriter renowned for her emotionally raw blend of country, rock, and folk, and for critically acclaimed albums like "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road."
- 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: Carla Haden Target entity description: Carla Hayden is an American librarian and library administrator who became the first woman and first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress.
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A.
Judee Sill
Judee Sill was an American singer-songwriter of the early 1970s known for her intricate, spiritually themed folk-pop compositions and her status as one of the first artists on David Geffen’s Asylum Records label.
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B.
Dolores Fullman
Dolores Fullman was the wife of American businessman and socialite John Jacob Astor VI, connecting her to the prominent Astor family.
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C.
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith was an American singer-songwriter known for her delicate vocals and narrative-driven blend of folk and country music, highlighted by songs like "Love at the Five and Dime" and "From a Distance."
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D.
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter celebrated for her influential work in country and folk music, renowned harmonies, and numerous Grammy-winning recordings.
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E.
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams is an American singer-songwriter renowned for her emotionally raw blend of country, rock, and folk, and for critically acclaimed albums like "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
librarian ⓘ public official ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| confirmedBy | United States Senate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Chicago Public Library
ⓘ
Enoch Pratt Free Library ⓘ
linked to:
Enoch Pratt Free Library Central Library
Library of Congress ⓘ Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Science and Industry
University of Pittsburgh ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Hayden ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
digital libraries
ⓘ
information access ⓘ librarianship ⓘ library administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Carla ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for public access to information
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leadership in public libraries ⓘ modernization of the Library of Congress ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Library Association
ⓘ
Black Caucus of the American Library Association ⓘ |
| name |
Carla Hayden
ⓘ
linked to:
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress
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first woman to serve as Librarian of Congress ⓘ |
| notableRole |
advocating for community-focused library services
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promoting diversity in librarianship ⓘ supporting digital access to Library of Congress collections ⓘ |
| occupation |
Librarian of Congress
ⓘ
librarian ⓘ library administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
14th Librarian of Congress
ⓘ
linked to:
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
CEO of Enoch Pratt Free Library ⓘ Chief Executive of the Library of Congress ⓘ President of the American Library Association ⓘ |
| residence |
Baltimore, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Chicago, Illinois ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Baltimore, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Chicago, Illinois ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Carla Haden Description of subject: Carla Hayden is an American librarian and library administrator who became the first woman and first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.