Shannon
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Shannon is a common Irish surname that originates from the River Shannon and is borne by numerous notable individuals, including mathematician and information theorist Claude Shannon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shannon canonical | 29 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T26917 — 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: Shannon Context triple: [Claude Shannon, familyName, Shannon]
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A.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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B.
Bolt Beranek and Newman
Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
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C.
Lee
Lee is a given name shared by numerous individuals across different cultures and professions.
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D.
Moore
Moore is the middle name of Edward M. Kennedy, the long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and prominent member of the Kennedy political family.
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E.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Shannon Target entity description: Shannon is a common Irish surname that originates from the River Shannon and is borne by numerous notable individuals, including mathematician and information theorist Claude Shannon.
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A.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
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B.
Bolt Beranek and Newman
Bolt Beranek and Newman was a pioneering American research and engineering firm best known for its foundational role in developing the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern internet.
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C.
Lee
Lee is a given name shared by numerous individuals across different cultures and professions.
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D.
Moore
Moore is the middle name of Edward M. Kennedy, the long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and prominent member of the Kennedy political family.
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E.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Shannon Description of subject: Shannon is a common Irish surname that originates from the River Shannon and is borne by numerous notable individuals, including mathematician and information theorist Claude Shannon.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.