Sonji Clay
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Sonji Clay, born Sonji Roi, was an American cocktail waitress best known as the first wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sonji Clay canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11842362 — 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: Sonji Clay Context triple: [Sonji Roi, saidToBeTheSameAs, Sonji Clay]
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A.
Jocelyn Brown
Jocelyn Brown is an American R&B and dance music singer best known for her powerful vocals and influential work in disco and house music, including the classic track "Somebody Else's Guy."
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B.
Lovina Smith
Lovina Smith was a 19th-century Latter-day Saint woman and daughter of early LDS leader Hyrum Smith.
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C.
Tina Clayton
Tina Clayton is a Jamaican sprinter known for her success in international youth and junior sprint competitions, particularly in the 100 meters.
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D.
Sonja Hood
Sonja Hood is an Australian sports administrator who serves as the president of the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.
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E.
Charlotte Moorman
Charlotte Moorman was an avant-garde American cellist and performance artist known for her experimental collaborations and boundary-pushing multimedia performances.
- 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: Sonji Clay Target entity description: Sonji Clay, born Sonji Roi, was an American cocktail waitress best known as the first wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
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A.
Jocelyn Brown
Jocelyn Brown is an American R&B and dance music singer best known for her powerful vocals and influential work in disco and house music, including the classic track "Somebody Else's Guy."
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B.
Lovina Smith
Lovina Smith was a 19th-century Latter-day Saint woman and daughter of early LDS leader Hyrum Smith.
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C.
Tina Clayton
Tina Clayton is a Jamaican sprinter known for her success in international youth and junior sprint competitions, particularly in the 100 meters.
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D.
Sonja Hood
Sonja Hood is an Australian sports administrator who serves as the president of the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.
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E.
Charlotte Moorman
Charlotte Moorman was an avant-garde American cellist and performance artist known for her experimental collaborations and boundary-pushing multimedia performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1960s ⓘ |
| birthName | Sonji Roi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| knownAs |
Sonji Clay
ⓘ
Sonji Roi ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1966 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1964 ⓘ |
| name | Sonji Clay ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
divorce from Muhammad Ali in 1966
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marriage to Muhammad Ali in 1964 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| occupation | cocktail waitress ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Chicago, Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Muhammad Ali
ⓘ
Sonji Clay ⓘ |
| spouseLaterName | Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| spouseNameAtMarriage |
Cassius Clay
ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad Ali
|
| spouseNotableAs | world heavyweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | professional boxer ⓘ |
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: Sonji Clay Description of subject: Sonji Clay, born Sonji Roi, was an American cocktail waitress best known as the first wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.