Mona Hanna-Attisha
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Mona Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician and public health advocate who played a pivotal role in exposing the lead contamination in Flint, Michigan’s water supply.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mona Hanna-Attisha canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2857863 — 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: Mona Hanna-Attisha Context triple: [Flint water crisis, involvesPerson, Mona Hanna-Attisha]
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A.
Gail Mutrux
Gail Mutrux is an American film producer known for her work on acclaimed dramas such as "News of the World" and "Donnie Brasco."
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B.
Nirine S. Brown
Nirine S. Brown is an actress known for her role in the psychological horror-thriller television series "Swarm."
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C.
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis is a physician who served as a key medical respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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D.
Jennifer L. Mnookin
Jennifer L. Mnookin is an American legal scholar and academic leader who serves as the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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E.
Soraya M. Coley
Soraya M. Coley is an American academic administrator and educator who has served as a leading figure in higher education, notably as the first woman to lead California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
- 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: Mona Hanna-Attisha Target entity description: Mona Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician and public health advocate who played a pivotal role in exposing the lead contamination in Flint, Michigan’s water supply.
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A.
Gail Mutrux
Gail Mutrux is an American film producer known for her work on acclaimed dramas such as "News of the World" and "Donnie Brasco."
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B.
Nirine S. Brown
Nirine S. Brown is an actress known for her role in the psychological horror-thriller television series "Swarm."
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C.
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis
Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis is a physician who served as a key medical respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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D.
Jennifer L. Mnookin
Jennifer L. Mnookin is an American legal scholar and academic leader who serves as the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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E.
Soraya M. Coley
Soraya M. Coley is an American academic administrator and educator who has served as a leading figure in higher education, notably as the first woman to lead California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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pediatrician ⓘ person ⓘ physician ⓘ public health advocate ⓘ whistleblower ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame induction
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Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award ⓘ
linked to:
Rachel Carson Award
Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling ⓘ
linked to:
Ridenhour Prize for Courage
TIME 100 most influential people (2016) ⓘ
linked to:
Time 100 Most Influential People
|
| causeAdvocated |
children’s rights
ⓘ
environmental justice ⓘ health equity ⓘ lead poisoning prevention ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| educatedAt |
Children’s Hospital of Michigan (residency)
ⓘ
Michigan State University ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan State College
Wayne State University School of Medicine ⓘ
linked to:
Wayne State University
|
| employer |
Hurley Children’s Hospital
ⓘ
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
environmental health
ⓘ
pediatrics ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | Michigan ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground | Iraqi ⓘ |
| influenced | policy changes regarding Flint’s water supply ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for children’s health
ⓘ
advocacy for safe drinking water ⓘ exposing lead contamination in Flint, Michigan’s water supply ⓘ research on elevated blood lead levels in Flint children ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Mona Hanna-Attisha ⓘ |
| notableEvent | publicly presented data on Flint children’s blood lead levels in 2015 ⓘ |
| notableWork | What the Eyes Don’t See ⓘ |
| notableWorkType | memoir ⓘ |
| occupation |
pediatrician
ⓘ
professor ⓘ public health advocate ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
associate professor of pediatrics
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director of the Pediatric Residency Program at Hurley Children’s Hospital (historical) ⓘ founding director of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 2018 ⓘ |
| residence | Michigan ⓘ |
| spokeOutAgainst | government mishandling of Flint water crisis ⓘ |
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: Mona Hanna-Attisha Description of subject: Mona Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician and public health advocate who played a pivotal role in exposing the lead contamination in Flint, Michigan’s water supply.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.