Marie Colvin
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Marie Colvin was a renowned American war correspondent for The Sunday Times, celebrated for her fearless frontline reporting from conflict zones around the world.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marie Colvin canonical | 8 |
| Marie Catherine Colvin | 1 |
| Marie Colvin (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5126978 — 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: Marie Colvin Context triple: [Siege of Homs, notableDeath, Marie Colvin]
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A.
Mary Anne Colvin
Mary Anne Colvin is known as the mother of civil rights figure Claudette Colvin, who played a key role in the early Montgomery bus protest movement.
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B.
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk was a prominent British journalist and Middle East correspondent renowned for his in-depth, on-the-ground reporting and critical analysis of Western foreign policy.
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C.
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey is an acclaimed American photojournalist renowned for his powerful war and conflict photography documenting human suffering around the world.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Marie Colvin Target entity description: Marie Colvin was a renowned American war correspondent for The Sunday Times, celebrated for her fearless frontline reporting from conflict zones around the world.
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A.
Mary Anne Colvin
Mary Anne Colvin is known as the mother of civil rights figure Claudette Colvin, who played a key role in the early Montgomery bus protest movement.
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B.
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk was a prominent British journalist and Middle East correspondent renowned for his in-depth, on-the-ground reporting and critical analysis of Western foreign policy.
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C.
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey is an acclaimed American photojournalist renowned for his powerful war and conflict photography documenting human suffering around the world.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Courage in Journalism Award
ⓘ
Foreign Reporter of the Year (British Press Awards) ⓘ
linked to:
Foreign Correspondent of the Year
James Cameron Memorial Award ⓘ
linked to:
James Cameron Memorial Trust Award
|
| causeOfDeath | artillery strike ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-01-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-02-22 ⓘ |
| describedAs | fearless frontline reporter ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oyster Bay High School
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | The Sunday Times ⓘ |
| eyeInjury | lost sight in left eye in Sri Lanka in 2001 ⓘ |
| familyName | Colvin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
ⓘ
war correspondence ⓘ |
| fullName |
Marie Catherine Colvin
ⓘ
linked to:
Marie Colvin
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
investigative journalism
ⓘ
war reporting ⓘ |
| givenName | Marie ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| knownFor | wearing an eye patch after being injured in Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in artillery bombardment ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | frontline reporting from conflict zones ⓘ |
| notableWork |
coverage of the Libyan civil war (2011)
ⓘ
coverage of the Sri Lankan civil war ⓘ coverage of the siege of Homs ⓘ |
| occupation |
foreign affairs correspondent
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Queens, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Homs, Syria
ⓘ
linked to:
Homs
|
| reportedFrom |
Chechnya
ⓘ
East Timor ⓘ
linked to:
Timor-Leste
Iraq ⓘ Kosovo ⓘ Libya ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ Syria ⓘ |
| residence |
London, United Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| workLocation |
London, United Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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: Marie Colvin Description of subject: Marie Colvin was a renowned American war correspondent for The Sunday Times, celebrated for her fearless frontline reporting from conflict zones around the world.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.