Cid Ricketts Sumner
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Cid Ricketts Sumner was an American novelist best known for her socially conscious works, including the novel that inspired the film "Pinky."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cid Ricketts Sumner canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3018034 — 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: Cid Ricketts Sumner Context triple: [Pinky, authorOfSourceWork, Cid Ricketts Sumner]
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A.
Luther Cressman
Luther Cressman was an American archaeologist and anthropologist best known for his pioneering work on early human habitation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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B.
Clovis Byers
Clovis Byers was a senior United States Army officer and World War II and Korean War combat leader who rose to the rank of lieutenant general.
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C.
Herschel Daugherty
Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
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D.
Harvey W. Loomis
Harvey W. Loomis was an American composer and music educator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his songs, choral works, and contributions to musical pedagogy.
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E.
Alvan Adams
Alvan Adams is a former American professional basketball player best known as a versatile center/forward for the Phoenix Suns during the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Cid Ricketts Sumner Target entity description: Cid Ricketts Sumner was an American novelist best known for her socially conscious works, including the novel that inspired the film "Pinky."
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A.
Luther Cressman
Luther Cressman was an American archaeologist and anthropologist best known for his pioneering work on early human habitation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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B.
Clovis Byers
Clovis Byers was a senior United States Army officer and World War II and Korean War combat leader who rose to the rank of lieutenant general.
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C.
Herschel Daugherty
Herschel Daugherty was an American film and television director best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century TV dramas and anthology series.
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D.
Harvey W. Loomis
Harvey W. Loomis was an American composer and music educator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his songs, choral works, and contributions to musical pedagogy.
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E.
Alvan Adams
Alvan Adams is a former American professional basketball player best known as a versatile center/forward for the Phoenix Suns during the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Cid Ricketts Sumner Description of subject: Cid Ricketts Sumner was an American novelist best known for her socially conscious works, including the novel that inspired the film "Pinky."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.