Safa Zaki
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Safa Zaki is a cognitive psychologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Bowdoin College.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Safa Zaki canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1224549 — 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: Safa Zaki Context triple: [Bowdoin College, president, Safa Zaki]
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A.
Safia Farkash
Safia Farkash is the second wife of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the mother of several of his children, known primarily for her role as Libya’s de facto first lady during his rule.
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B.
Sajida Talfah
Sajida Talfah was the first wife and cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the mother of several of his children.
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C.
Lisa Najeeb Halaby
Lisa Najeeb Halaby, better known as Queen Noor of Jordan, is an American-born Jordanian royal, widow of King Hussein, and a prominent advocate for peace, human rights, and sustainable development.
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D.
Bassma Al Jandali
Bassma Al Jandali is a Syrian-American woman known primarily as the sister of Abdulfattah Jandali, the biological father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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E.
Lutfunnisa Begum
Lutfunnisa Begum was a consort of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal in the mid-18th century.
- 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: Safa Zaki Target entity description: Safa Zaki is a cognitive psychologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Bowdoin College.
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A.
Safia Farkash
Safia Farkash is the second wife of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the mother of several of his children, known primarily for her role as Libya’s de facto first lady during his rule.
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B.
Sajida Talfah
Sajida Talfah was the first wife and cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the mother of several of his children.
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C.
Lisa Najeeb Halaby
Lisa Najeeb Halaby, better known as Queen Noor of Jordan, is an American-born Jordanian royal, widow of King Hussein, and a prominent advocate for peace, human rights, and sustainable development.
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D.
Bassma Al Jandali
Bassma Al Jandali is a Syrian-American woman known primarily as the sister of Abdulfattah Jandali, the biological father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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E.
Lutfunnisa Begum
Lutfunnisa Begum was a consort of Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal in the mid-18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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cognitive psychologist ⓘ college president ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfExpertise |
experimental psychology
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human cognition ⓘ |
| associatedWith | liberal arts education ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | Bowdoin College ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cognitive psychology ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRole |
academic leader
ⓘ
university president ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first woman president of Bowdoin College
ⓘ
research in cognitive psychology ⓘ |
| leadershipPositionIn | Bowdoin College ⓘ |
| memberOf | academic community in the United States ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first woman to serve as president of Bowdoin College ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to cognitive psychology
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leadership in higher education ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic leader
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cognitive psychologist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Bowdoin College ⓘ |
| sharesFieldWith | cognitive psychologists ⓘ |
| workLocation | Brunswick, Maine ⓘ |
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: Safa Zaki Description of subject: Safa Zaki is a cognitive psychologist and academic leader who became the first woman to serve as president of Bowdoin College.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.