Valerie Adams
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Valerie Adams is a New Zealand shot putter and multiple Olympic and world champion, widely regarded as one of the greatest female throwers in athletics history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Valerie Adams canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9479306 — 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: Valerie Adams Context triple: [New Zealand national athletics team, notableAthlete, Valerie Adams]
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A.
Jamie Laurenson
Jamie Laurenson is a television and film producer known for high-end drama projects, including serving as an executive producer on the series "The North Water."
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B.
Tatiana Hurd
Tatiana Hurd is the wife of British Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.
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C.
Shauna Robertson
Shauna Robertson is a Canadian film producer best known for her frequent collaborations with Judd Apatow on hit comedy films such as "Superbad," "Knocked Up," and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."
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D.
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Bonnie Watson Coleman is an American Democratic politician serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey and known as the first Black woman elected to Congress from the state.
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E.
Shelley Ann Scarney
Shelley Ann Scarney is the wife of American conservative political commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.
- 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: Valerie Adams Target entity description: Valerie Adams is a New Zealand shot putter and multiple Olympic and world champion, widely regarded as one of the greatest female throwers in athletics history.
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A.
Jamie Laurenson
Jamie Laurenson is a television and film producer known for high-end drama projects, including serving as an executive producer on the series "The North Water."
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B.
Tatiana Hurd
Tatiana Hurd is the wife of British Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.
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C.
Shauna Robertson
Shauna Robertson is a Canadian film producer best known for her frequent collaborations with Judd Apatow on hit comedy films such as "Superbad," "Knocked Up," and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."
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D.
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Bonnie Watson Coleman is an American Democratic politician serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey and known as the first Black woman elected to Congress from the state.
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E.
Shelley Ann Scarney
Shelley Ann Scarney is the wife of American conservative political commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Zealander
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athlete ⓘ human ⓘ shot putter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Olympic bronze medal
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Olympic gold medal ⓘ Olympic silver medal ⓘ World Championships in Athletics gold medal ⓘ World Indoor Championships gold medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| countryRepresented | New Zealand ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984-10-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tongan ⓘ |
| event | shot put ⓘ |
| familyName | Adams ⓘ |
| fullName | Dame Valerie Kasanita Adams ⓘ |
| givenName | Valerie ⓘ |
| height |
193 cm
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6 ft 4 in ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Dame ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit ⓘ |
| isConsidered |
one of the greatest female shot putters of all time
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one of the greatest female throwers in athletics history ⓘ |
| medalRecord |
bronze medal in women’s shot put at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
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gold medal in women’s shot put at the 2008 Beijing Olympics ⓘ gold medal in women’s shot put at the 2012 London Olympics ⓘ silver medal in women’s shot put at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics ⓘ |
| nationality | New Zealander ⓘ |
| notableWork | autobiography "Valerie" ⓘ |
| numberOfWorldIndoorTitles | 4 ⓘ |
| numberOfWorldOutdoorTitles | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
coach
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sports administrator ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2004 Summer Olympics
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2008 Summer Olympics ⓘ 2012 Summer Olympics ⓘ
linked to:
Summer Olympics 2012
2016 Summer Olympics ⓘ 2020 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New Zealand
ⓘ
Rotorua ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Auckland ⓘ |
| retirement | retired from competitive athletics in 2022 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling | Steven Adams ⓘ |
| sport | athletics ⓘ |
| worldChampionInDiscipline | women’s shot put ⓘ |
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: Valerie Adams Description of subject: Valerie Adams is a New Zealand shot putter and multiple Olympic and world champion, widely regarded as one of the greatest female throwers in athletics history.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.