Dunham
E47156
American anthropologist
President of the United States
United States Marine
anthropologist
choreographer
dancer
family name
human
politician
stand-up comedian
surname
ventriloquist
Dunham is a surname most notably associated with Ann Dunham, the American anthropologist and mother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dunham canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T350674 — 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: Dunham Context triple: [Ann Dunham, familyName, Dunham]
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A.
Peabody
Peabody is a suburban city in northeastern Massachusetts known for its location on the North Shore and its historical ties to the leather industry.
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B.
Huntington
Huntington is a town on the north shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, known for its historic downtown, waterfront, and cultural attractions.
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C.
Quincy
Quincy is a coastal city in eastern Massachusetts known as the "City of Presidents" for being the birthplace of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
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D.
Springwood
Springwood is the historic Hudson River estate in Hyde Park, New York, best known as the lifelong home and presidential library site of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Oakton
Oakton is a suburban community in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, known for its residential neighborhoods, good schools, and proximity to Washington, D.C.
- 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: Dunham Target entity description: Dunham is a surname most notably associated with Ann Dunham, the American anthropologist and mother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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A.
Peabody
Peabody is a suburban city in northeastern Massachusetts known for its location on the North Shore and its historical ties to the leather industry.
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B.
Huntington
Huntington is a town on the north shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, known for its historic downtown, waterfront, and cultural attractions.
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C.
Quincy
Quincy is a coastal city in eastern Massachusetts known as the "City of Presidents" for being the birthplace of U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
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D.
Springwood
Springwood is the historic Hudson River estate in Hyde Park, New York, best known as the lifelong home and presidential library site of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Oakton
Oakton is a suburban community in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, known for its residential neighborhoods, good schools, and proximity to Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American anthropologist
ⓘ
President of the United States ⓘ United States Marine ⓘ anthropologist ⓘ anthropologist ⓘ choreographer ⓘ dancer ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ surname ⓘ ventriloquist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Medal of Honor ⓘ |
| birthName |
Stanley Ann Dunham
ⓘ
linked to:
Ann Dunham
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1909-06-22
ⓘ
1942-11-29 ⓘ 1962-04-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1995-11-07
ⓘ
2006-05-21 ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Hawaii
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
|
| familyName |
Dunham
ⓘ
Dunham ⓘ Dunham ⓘ Dunham ⓘ Obama ⓘ
linked to:
Barack Obama
|
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
ⓘ
economic anthropology ⓘ rural development ⓘ |
| givenName |
Ann
ⓘ
Jeffrey ⓘ Stanley ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Ann Dunham
ⓘ
Jason Dunham ⓘ Jeff Dunham ⓘ Katherine Dunham ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| mother | Ann Dunham ⓘ |
| motherOf | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| notableWork | Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dallas, Texas, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Dallas, Texas
Wichita, Kansas, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Wichita, Kansas
|
| placeOfDeath | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States ⓘ |
| studiedIn | Indonesia ⓘ |
| studiedTopic | Indonesian village industries ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Dunham Description of subject: Dunham is a surname most notably associated with Ann Dunham, the American anthropologist and mother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.