Cyrus Grace Dunham
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Cyrus Grace Dunham is an American writer, activist, and nonbinary trans advocate known for their memoir "A Year Without a Name" and work on gender identity and social justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cyrus Grace Dunham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6527265 — 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: Cyrus Grace Dunham Context triple: [Lena Dunham, sibling, Cyrus Grace Dunham]
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A.
Madelyn Dunham
Madelyn Dunham was the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama and a key figure in his upbringing in Hawaii.
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B.
Mabel Dunham
Mabel Dunham is a central female character in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pathfinder," known for her role in the romantic and frontier adventures of the Leatherstocking Tales.
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C.
Dorothy Park Benjamin
Dorothy Park Benjamin was the American wife of famed Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, known primarily for her marriage to the legendary opera singer.
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D.
Josephine Sheldon Young
Josephine Sheldon Young was the wife of American industrialist and diplomat Owen D. Young, noted for her role as his partner during his prominent business and public service career.
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E.
Barbara Chase
Barbara Chase was an American artist and writer best known as the second wife of psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
- 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: Cyrus Grace Dunham Target entity description: Cyrus Grace Dunham is an American writer, activist, and nonbinary trans advocate known for their memoir "A Year Without a Name" and work on gender identity and social justice.
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A.
Madelyn Dunham
Madelyn Dunham was the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama and a key figure in his upbringing in Hawaii.
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B.
Mabel Dunham
Mabel Dunham is a central female character in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pathfinder," known for her role in the romantic and frontier adventures of the Leatherstocking Tales.
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C.
Dorothy Park Benjamin
Dorothy Park Benjamin was the American wife of famed Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, known primarily for her marriage to the legendary opera singer.
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D.
Josephine Sheldon Young
Josephine Sheldon Young was the wife of American industrialist and diplomat Owen D. Young, noted for her role as his partner during his prominent business and public service career.
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E.
Barbara Chase
Barbara Chase was an American artist and writer best known as the second wife of psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
activist
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human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ non-binary person ⓘ transgender person ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
LGBTQ+ equality
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non-binary visibility ⓘ transgender rights ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1992 ⓘ |
| describedIn |
The New York Times
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The New Yorker ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brown University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dunham ⓘ |
| genderIdentity | non-binary ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| givenName |
Cyrus
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Grace ⓘ |
| hasPronouns | they/them ⓘ |
| hasRole | nonbinary trans advocate ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Lena Dunham ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
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transgender rights movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
LGBTQ+ activism
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memoir A Year Without a Name ⓘ public writing on gender ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Year Without a Name
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articles on social justice ⓘ essays on gender identity ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| parent |
Carroll Dunham
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Laurie Simmons ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | queer ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
family
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gender identity ⓘ social justice ⓘ transition ⓘ |
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: Cyrus Grace Dunham Description of subject: Cyrus Grace Dunham is an American writer, activist, and nonbinary trans advocate known for their memoir "A Year Without a Name" and work on gender identity and social justice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.