Obin
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Obin is a surname most notably associated with Haitian painter Philomé Obin and his family of influential artists.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Obin canonical | 5 |
| Télémaque Obin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1394281 — 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: Obin Context triple: [Philomé Obin, familyName, Obin]
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Obetia
Obetia is a small genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Cannabaceae, known for its stinging hairs and occurrence in parts of Africa and nearby regions.
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Beni
Beni is a sparsely populated, largely Amazonian department in northeastern Bolivia known for its tropical lowlands, cattle ranching, and rich indigenous cultures.
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Beni
Beni is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that became internationally known as a major hotspot of conflict and public health crises, including serving as the epicenter of the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
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D.
Undun
Undun is a concept album by hip hop band The Roots that narrates the rise and fall of a fictional young man through introspective, jazz-influenced production and storytelling.
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E.
Lemi
Lemi is a small rural municipality in southeastern Finland known for its lakes, forests, and traditional Karelian culture.
- 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: Obin Target entity description: Obin is a surname most notably associated with Haitian painter Philomé Obin and his family of influential artists.
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A.
Obetia
Obetia is a small genus of flowering plants in the nettle family Cannabaceae, known for its stinging hairs and occurrence in parts of Africa and nearby regions.
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B.
Beni
Beni is a sparsely populated, largely Amazonian department in northeastern Bolivia known for its tropical lowlands, cattle ranching, and rich indigenous cultures.
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C.
Beni
Beni is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that became internationally known as a major hotspot of conflict and public health crises, including serving as the epicenter of the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
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D.
Undun
Undun is a concept album by hip hop band The Roots that narrates the rise and fall of a fictional young man through introspective, jazz-influenced production and storytelling.
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E.
Lemi
Lemi is a small rural municipality in southeastern Finland known for its lakes, forests, and traditional Karelian culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Obin Description of subject: Obin is a surname most notably associated with Haitian painter Philomé Obin and his family of influential artists.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.