Catherine Stihler
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Catherine Stihler is a Scottish former Labour MEP and political figure who has gone on to lead major digital and open knowledge organizations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catherine Stihler canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T925429 — 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: Catherine Stihler Context triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Catherine Stihler]
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A.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
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B.
Cynthia Scheider
Cynthia Scheider is an American film editor known for her work on movies such as "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and "Kramer vs. Kramer."
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C.
Cynthia Stevenson
Cynthia Stevenson is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in projects like "Home for the Holidays" and the series "Dead Like Me."
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D.
Catherine Ann Dunn
Catherine Ann Dunn is known as the wife of American politician and four-time New York governor Al Smith.
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E.
Colleen Sostorics
Colleen Sostorics is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and three-time Olympic gold medallist who starred with the national women’s team.
- 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: Catherine Stihler Target entity description: Catherine Stihler is a Scottish former Labour MEP and political figure who has gone on to lead major digital and open knowledge organizations.
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A.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
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B.
Cynthia Scheider
Cynthia Scheider is an American film editor known for her work on movies such as "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and "Kramer vs. Kramer."
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C.
Cynthia Stevenson
Cynthia Stevenson is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in projects like "Home for the Holidays" and the series "Dead Like Me."
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D.
Catherine Ann Dunn
Catherine Ann Dunn is known as the wife of American politician and four-time New York governor Al Smith.
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E.
Colleen Sostorics
Colleen Sostorics is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and three-time Olympic gold medallist who starred with the national women’s team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Member of the European Parliament
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chief executive officer ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Europe College, University of St Andrews
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University of London ⓘ University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| familyName | Stihler ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
European politics
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digital policy ⓘ open knowledge ⓘ open licensing ⓘ |
| givenName | Catherine ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Labour Party (UK) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in global open knowledge movement
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service as Scottish Labour MEP ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership of Creative Commons
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leadership of Open Knowledge Foundation ⓘ |
| occupation |
chief executive officer
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executive ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| parliamentaryGroup | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Creative Commons
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Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge Foundation ⓘ Member of the European Parliament for Scotland ⓘ Rector of the University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| representedRegion | Scotland ⓘ |
| residence | Scotland ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Catherine Stihler Description of subject: Catherine Stihler is a Scottish former Labour MEP and political figure who has gone on to lead major digital and open knowledge organizations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.