Aruna Roy
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Aruna Roy is an Indian social and political activist best known for her leadership in the Right to Information movement and her work empowering rural communities and advocating for government transparency and accountability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aruna Roy canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1537992 — 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: Aruna Roy Context triple: [Ramon Magsaysay Award, notableRecipient, Aruna Roy]
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A.
Savita Ambedkar
Savita Ambedkar was an Indian doctor and social activist best known as the second wife and close companion of B. R. Ambedkar in his later life and political work.
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B.
Sucheta Kriplani
Sucheta Kriplani was an Indian freedom fighter and politician who became the first woman Chief Minister of an Indian state, serving Uttar Pradesh.
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C.
Aruna Miller
Aruna Miller is an American politician and engineer who made history as the first woman of color and first immigrant elected as Maryland’s lieutenant governor.
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D.
Sushila Gandhi
Sushila Gandhi was the wife of Manilal Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s second son, and was involved in the Gandhian movement and community work in South Africa.
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E.
Lakshmibai Newalkar
Lakshmibai Newalkar, better known as Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, was a leading queen and warrior of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and a symbol of resistance against British colonial rule.
- 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: Aruna Roy Target entity description: Aruna Roy is an Indian social and political activist best known for her leadership in the Right to Information movement and her work empowering rural communities and advocating for government transparency and accountability.
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A.
Savita Ambedkar
Savita Ambedkar was an Indian doctor and social activist best known as the second wife and close companion of B. R. Ambedkar in his later life and political work.
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B.
Sucheta Kriplani
Sucheta Kriplani was an Indian freedom fighter and politician who became the first woman Chief Minister of an Indian state, serving Uttar Pradesh.
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C.
Aruna Miller
Aruna Miller is an American politician and engineer who made history as the first woman of color and first immigrant elected as Maryland’s lieutenant governor.
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D.
Sushila Gandhi
Sushila Gandhi was the wife of Manilal Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s second son, and was involved in the Gandhian movement and community work in South Africa.
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E.
Lakshmibai Newalkar
Lakshmibai Newalkar, better known as Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, was a leading queen and warrior of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and a symbol of resistance against British colonial rule.
- 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: Aruna Roy Description of subject: Aruna Roy is an Indian social and political activist best known for her leadership in the Right to Information movement and her work empowering rural communities and advocating for government transparency and accountability.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.