Maya Soetoro-Ng
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Maya Soetoro-Ng is an Indonesian-born American educator and writer best known as the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maya Soetoro-Ng canonical | 13 |
| Maya Kasandra Soetoro | 1 |
| Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T350683 — 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: Maya Soetoro-Ng Context triple: [Ann Dunham, child, Maya Soetoro-Ng]
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A.
Marina Chin
Marina Chin is a former Malaysian national hurdler and prominent sports figure who gained recognition for her achievements in athletics and her role in major national sporting events.
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B.
Anne Lie
Anne Lie is a notable individual who carries the Norwegian surname Lie, recognized among its distinguished bearers.
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C.
Cynthia Maung
Cynthia Maung is a Burmese physician and human rights activist renowned for founding the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Myanmar border to provide healthcare for refugees and displaced people.
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D.
Elizabeth Pomada
Elizabeth Pomada is an American author and historian best known for popularizing San Francisco’s colorful Victorian houses through her influential work on the “Painted Ladies.”
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E.
Lynn Petra Alexander
Lynn Petra Alexander is the birth name of Lynn Margulis, the influential American biologist best known for her work on the endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell evolution.
- 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: Maya Soetoro-Ng Target entity description: Maya Soetoro-Ng is an Indonesian-born American educator and writer best known as the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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A.
Marina Chin
Marina Chin is a former Malaysian national hurdler and prominent sports figure who gained recognition for her achievements in athletics and her role in major national sporting events.
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B.
Anne Lie
Anne Lie is a notable individual who carries the Norwegian surname Lie, recognized among its distinguished bearers.
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C.
Cynthia Maung
Cynthia Maung is a Burmese physician and human rights activist renowned for founding the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Myanmar border to provide healthcare for refugees and displaced people.
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D.
Elizabeth Pomada
Elizabeth Pomada is an American author and historian best known for popularizing San Francisco’s colorful Victorian houses through her influential work on the “Painted Ladies.”
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E.
Lynn Petra Alexander
Lynn Petra Alexander is the birth name of Lynn Margulis, the influential American biologist best known for her work on the endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Maya Soetoro-Ng Description of subject: Maya Soetoro-Ng is an Indonesian-born American educator and writer best known as the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maya Soetoro-Ng
subject linked to:
Soetoro-Ng
linked to: Maya Soetoro-Ng
subject linked to:
Suhaila Ng