Maria Ressa
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Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and co-founder of the news site Rappler, renowned for her investigative reporting on authoritarianism and disinformation and as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
All labels observed (1)
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| Maria Ressa canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4755514 — 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: Maria Ressa Context triple: [Dmitry Muratov, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Maria Ressa]
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Dmitry Muratov
Dmitry Muratov is a Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for his leadership of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and his outspoken criticism of government corruption and human rights abuses.
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B.
Zoe Pilger
Zoe Pilger is a British novelist, art critic, and journalist known for her debut novel "Eat My Heart Out" and her writing on contemporary feminism and culture.
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C.
Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto is a Mexican journalist and writer renowned for her in-depth reporting on Latin American politics and society, particularly in conflict and post-conflict contexts.
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D.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher, and activist best known as the founder of WikiLeaks, which released classified and sensitive documents from governments and organizations worldwide.
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E.
Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras is an American documentary filmmaker and journalist best known for her work on U.S. surveillance and national security, including the Oscar-winning film "Citizenfour" about Edward Snowden.
- 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: Maria Ressa Target entity description: Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and co-founder of the news site Rappler, renowned for her investigative reporting on authoritarianism and disinformation and as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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A.
Dmitry Muratov
Dmitry Muratov is a Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for his leadership of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and his outspoken criticism of government corruption and human rights abuses.
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B.
Zoe Pilger
Zoe Pilger is a British novelist, art critic, and journalist known for her debut novel "Eat My Heart Out" and her writing on contemporary feminism and culture.
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C.
Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto is a Mexican journalist and writer renowned for her in-depth reporting on Latin American politics and society, particularly in conflict and post-conflict contexts.
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D.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher, and activist best known as the founder of WikiLeaks, which released classified and sensitive documents from governments and organizations worldwide.
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E.
Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras is an American documentary filmmaker and journalist best known for her work on U.S. surveillance and national security, including the Oscar-winning film "Citizenfour" about Edward Snowden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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author ⓘ editor ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| activism | campaigning for press freedom in the Philippines ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech
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linked to:
Four Freedoms Award
Golden Pen of Freedom ⓘ Knight International Journalism Award ⓘ Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ Shorenstein Journalism Award ⓘ Time Person of the Year ⓘ UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize ⓘ |
| coFounded | Rappler ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Philippines
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-10-02 ⓘ |
| degree | Bachelor of Arts in English ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton University
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Toms River High School North ⓘ |
| employer |
ABS-CBN News
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linked to:
ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs
CNN ⓘ Rappler ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Filipino American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ressa ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
digital media
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disinformation research ⓘ investigative journalism ⓘ journalism ⓘ press freedom ⓘ |
| givenName | Maria Angelita ⓘ |
| hasBeenSubjectOf | government legal cases in the Philippines ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Rappler
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investigative reporting on authoritarianism ⓘ press freedom advocacy ⓘ reporting on disinformation ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Filipino ⓘ |
| name | Maria Ressa ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeCategory | Peace ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
arrest in 2019 on cyber libel charges
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conviction for cyber libel in 2020 ⓘ |
| notableIdea | use of social media to spread disinformation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
From Bin Laden to Facebook
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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chief executive officer ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Manila ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Rappler
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CNN bureau chief in Jakarta ⓘ CNN bureau chief in Manila ⓘ executive editor of Rappler ⓘ head of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeWith | Dmitry Muratov ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Maria Ressa Description of subject: Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and co-founder of the news site Rappler, renowned for her investigative reporting on authoritarianism and disinformation and as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.