Jan Norman
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Jan Norman is known as the wife of Australian Olympic sprinter Peter Norman, who famously protested racial discrimination at the 1968 Mexico City Games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan Norman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10265716 — 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: Jan Norman Context triple: [Peter Norman, spouse, Jan Norman]
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A.
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer is an English pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hits such as "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You."
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B.
Stevie Crawford
Stevie Crawford is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach best known as a prolific forward in the Scottish leagues and later as a manager.
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C.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
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D.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an English pop and soul singer best known for his 1980s hits such as "Everytime You Go Away" and "Come Back and Stay."
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E.
Dan Hill
Dan Hill is a Canadian pop and soft rock singer-songwriter best known for his emotive ballads such as "Sometimes When We Touch."
- 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: Jan Norman Target entity description: Jan Norman is known as the wife of Australian Olympic sprinter Peter Norman, who famously protested racial discrimination at the 1968 Mexico City Games.
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A.
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer is an English pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hits such as "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You."
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B.
Stevie Crawford
Stevie Crawford is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach best known as a prolific forward in the Scottish leagues and later as a manager.
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C.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an American politician serving as the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
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D.
Paul Young
Paul Young is an English pop and soul singer best known for his 1980s hits such as "Everytime You Go Away" and "Come Back and Stay."
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E.
Dan Hill
Dan Hill is a Canadian pop and soft rock singer-songwriter best known for his emotive ballads such as "Sometimes When We Touch."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Australia
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Australia ⓘ |
| event | 200 metres ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of Australian Olympic sprinter Peter Norman
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connection to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics Black Power salute protest through her husband Peter Norman ⓘ protesting racial discrimination at the 1968 Mexico City Games ⓘ supporting the Black Power salute protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics ⓘ |
| occupation | sprinter ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 1968 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | athletics ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jan Norman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jan Norman Description of subject: Jan Norman is known as the wife of Australian Olympic sprinter Peter Norman, who famously protested racial discrimination at the 1968 Mexico City Games.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Peter Norman