Suze Rotolo
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Suze Rotolo was an American artist and political activist best known as Bob Dylan’s early 1960s girlfriend and muse, famously pictured with him on the cover of his album "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Suze Rotolo canonical | 17 |
| Susan Elizabeth Rotolo | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T835838 — 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: Suze Rotolo Context triple: [No Direction Home, featuresPerson, Suze Rotolo]
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A.
Sydney Maleia Lawford
Sydney Maleia Lawford is a member of the Kennedy family, known as the daughter of Patricia Kennedy Lawford and actor Peter Lawford.
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B.
Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney was an American photographer, animal rights activist, and musician best known as a member of Wings and for her marriage to former Beatle Paul McCartney.
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C.
Patti Smith
Patti Smith is an influential American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist often called the "punk poet laureate" for her pioneering role in the 1970s New York punk rock movement.
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D.
Alec Shorter
Alec Shorter is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Shorter.
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E.
Esther Gordy Edwards
Esther Gordy Edwards was a Motown executive and preservationist who played a key role in the label’s development and later safeguarded its legacy as a cultural institution.
- 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: Suze Rotolo Target entity description: Suze Rotolo was an American artist and political activist best known as Bob Dylan’s early 1960s girlfriend and muse, famously pictured with him on the cover of his album "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan."
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A.
Sydney Maleia Lawford
Sydney Maleia Lawford is a member of the Kennedy family, known as the daughter of Patricia Kennedy Lawford and actor Peter Lawford.
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B.
Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney was an American photographer, animal rights activist, and musician best known as a member of Wings and for her marriage to former Beatle Paul McCartney.
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C.
Patti Smith
Patti Smith is an influential American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist often called the "punk poet laureate" for her pioneering role in the 1970s New York punk rock movement.
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D.
Alec Shorter
Alec Shorter is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinguished bearer of the surname Shorter.
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E.
Esther Gordy Edwards
Esther Gordy Edwards was a Motown executive and preservationist who played a key role in the label’s development and later safeguarded its legacy as a cultural institution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
ⓘ
human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| birthName |
Susan Elizabeth Rotolo
ⓘ
linked to:
Suze Rotolo
|
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-11-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-02-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | High School of Music & Art ⓘ |
| endTime (relationship with Bob Dylan) | mid-1960s ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Rotolo ⓘ |
| father | Giovanni Rotolo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book illustration
ⓘ
political activism ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Susan ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bob Dylan’s early songwriting
ⓘ
political themes in Bob Dylan’s songs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearing on the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
ⓘ
relationship with Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Rotolo ⓘ |
| movement |
anti-nuclear movement
ⓘ
civil rights movement ⓘ
linked to:
American civil rights movement
left-wing politics ⓘ |
| name | Suze Rotolo ⓘ |
| nickname | Suze ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
author ⓘ book illustrator ⓘ political activist ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1960s Greenwich Village folk scene
ⓘ
civil rights activism in the early 1960s ⓘ |
| partner | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
ⓘ
Queens ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology |
left-wing politics
ⓘ
socialism ⓘ |
| residence |
Greenwich Village
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ |
| sibling | Carla Rotolo ⓘ |
| spouse | Enzo Bartoccioli ⓘ |
| startTime (relationship with Bob Dylan) | early 1960s ⓘ |
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: Suze Rotolo Description of subject: Suze Rotolo was an American artist and political activist best known as Bob Dylan’s early 1960s girlfriend and muse, famously pictured with him on the cover of his album "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.