Sheryl WuDunn
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Sheryl WuDunn is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author, and business executive known for her work on global issues and women's rights.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sheryl WuDunn canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5702321 — 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: Sheryl WuDunn Context triple: [Nicholas Kristof, spouse, Sheryl WuDunn]
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Jill Tavelman
Jill Tavelman is an American former actress and businesswoman best known as the ex-wife of musician Phil Collins and the mother of actress Lily Collins.
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B.
Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist and former Microsoft executive best known for co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and her global work on health, education, and gender equality.
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C.
Roberta A. Kaplan
Roberta A. Kaplan is an American civil rights lawyer best known for successfully arguing the landmark Supreme Court case United States v. Windsor, which helped overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and advanced marriage equality in the United States.
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D.
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Nancy-Ann DeParle is an American lawyer and health policy expert who served as a senior advisor in the Obama administration, including as Director of the White House Office of Health Reform.
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E.
Tina Cohen-Chang
Tina Cohen-Chang is a shy yet talented singer and member of the New Directions glee club in the television series "Glee."
- 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: Sheryl WuDunn Target entity description: Sheryl WuDunn is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author, and business executive known for her work on global issues and women's rights.
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A.
Jill Tavelman
Jill Tavelman is an American former actress and businesswoman best known as the ex-wife of musician Phil Collins and the mother of actress Lily Collins.
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B.
Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist and former Microsoft executive best known for co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and her global work on health, education, and gender equality.
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C.
Roberta A. Kaplan
Roberta A. Kaplan is an American civil rights lawyer best known for successfully arguing the landmark Supreme Court case United States v. Windsor, which helped overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and advanced marriage equality in the United States.
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D.
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Nancy-Ann DeParle is an American lawyer and health policy expert who served as a senior advisor in the Obama administration, including as Director of the White House Office of Health Reform.
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E.
Tina Cohen-Chang
Tina Cohen-Chang is a shy yet talented singer and member of the New Directions glee club in the television series "Glee."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pulitzer Prize winner
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author ⓘ business executive ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
economic empowerment of women
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girls' education ⓘ poverty alleviation ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredRegionAsJournalist |
China
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East Asia ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
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Harvard Business School ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | The New York Times ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Chinese American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
human rights
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international development ⓘ journalism ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of philanthropic initiatives with Nicholas Kristof ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.sherylwudunn.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for women's rights
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co-authoring books with Nicholas Kristof ⓘ reporting on global issues ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Chinese
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English ⓘ |
| name | Sheryl WuDunn ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide ⓘ Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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business executive ⓘ journalist ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
banking executive
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executive at Goldman Sachs ⓘ senior managing director at Mid-Market Securities ⓘ |
| pulitzerCategory | International Reporting ⓘ |
| pulitzerSharedWith | Nicholas Kristof ⓘ |
| speaksOn |
corporate social responsibility
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global inequality ⓘ social entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| spouse | Nicholas Kristof ⓘ |
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: Sheryl WuDunn Description of subject: Sheryl WuDunn is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author, and business executive known for her work on global issues and women's rights.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.