Newsom
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Newsom is a surname most prominently associated with American musician and songwriter Joanna Newsom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newsom canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T139353 — 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: Newsom Context triple: [Joanna Newsom, familyName, Newsom]
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A.
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who serves as the governor of California and is known for his progressive policies on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and social justice.
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B.
William Newsom
William Newsom was an American state appeals court judge and prominent San Francisco attorney known as the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom and for his long-standing connections to influential political and business circles.
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C.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Jennifer Siebel Newsom is an American documentary filmmaker, actor, and advocate for gender equality who serves as the First Partner of California.
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D.
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown is an American Democratic politician who served multiple terms as governor of California and ran several times for the U.S. presidency.
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E.
Gray Davis
Gray Davis is an American Democratic politician who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 until his recall in 2003.
- 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: Newsom Target entity description: Newsom is a surname most prominently associated with American musician and songwriter Joanna Newsom.
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A.
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who serves as the governor of California and is known for his progressive policies on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and social justice.
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B.
William Newsom
William Newsom was an American state appeals court judge and prominent San Francisco attorney known as the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom and for his long-standing connections to influential political and business circles.
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C.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Jennifer Siebel Newsom is an American documentary filmmaker, actor, and advocate for gender equality who serves as the First Partner of California.
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D.
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown is an American Democratic politician who served multiple terms as governor of California and ran several times for the U.S. presidency.
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E.
Gray Davis
Gray Davis is an American Democratic politician who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 until his recall in 2003.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Newsom
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Newsom ⓘ Newsom ⓘ Newsom ⓘ Newsom ⓘ Newsom ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Christopher Newsom
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David Newsom ⓘ Gavin Newsom ⓘ Jennifer Siebel Newsom ⓘ Joanna Newsom ⓘ William Newsom ⓘ |
| occupation |
harpist
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judge ⓘ musician ⓘ politician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
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: Newsom Description of subject: Newsom is a surname most prominently associated with American musician and songwriter Joanna Newsom.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.