Yma Sumac
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Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yma Sumac canonical | 62 |
| Ymma Sumack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T24906 — 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: Yma Sumac Context triple: [Hollywood Forever Cemetery, hasBurial, Yma Sumac]
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A.
Gori
Gori is a city in central Georgia best known as the birthplace of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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B.
Sather Gate
Sather Gate is a historic Beaux-Arts style gateway and landmark entrance to the main campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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C.
Ojos del Salado
Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border, recognized as the highest active volcano in the world.
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D.
Fiat Lux
Fiat Lux is a Latin phrase meaning "Let there be light," used as the inspirational motto of the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
Lake Tear of the Clouds
Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small mountain tarn on the slopes of New York’s Mount Marcy, historically recognized as the highest-elevation source of the Hudson River.
- 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: Yma Sumac Target entity description: Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
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A.
Gori
Gori is a city in central Georgia best known as the birthplace of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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B.
Sather Gate
Sather Gate is a historic Beaux-Arts style gateway and landmark entrance to the main campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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C.
Ojos del Salado
Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border, recognized as the highest active volcano in the world.
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D.
Fiat Lux
Fiat Lux is a Latin phrase meaning "Let there be light," used as the inspirational motto of the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
Aha Makhav
Aha Makhav is the endonym used by the Mojave people to refer to themselves and their cultural identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Yma Sumac Description of subject: Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yma Sumac
subject linked to:
Ichocán, Cajamarca, Peru
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featuring Yma Sumac early in her career
subject linked to:
featuring Yma Sumac early in her career
subject linked to:
Carnaval Indio (Indian Carnival)
subject linked to:
Carnaval Indio (Indian Carnival)
subject linked to:
Carnaval Indio (Indian Carnival)
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praised for Yma Sumac’s extraordinary vocal technique
subject linked to:
praised for Yma Sumac’s extraordinary vocal technique