Sarah
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Sarah is the given name of Sarah Childress Polk, who served as First Lady of the United States during the presidency of James K. Polk.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13015566 — 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: Sarah Context triple: [Sarah Childress Polk, givenName, Sarah]
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A.
Sarah
Sarah is the central protagonist of the story "Horse Girl," around whom the main narrative and character development revolve.
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B.
Sarah
Sarah is a person whose full name is Sarah Catherine McPherson Risher Getty.
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C.
Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah P. Duke, the philanthropist and namesake of Duke University's Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
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D.
Sarah
Sarah is the given name of the renowned 19th- and early 20th-century French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, often called "the Divine Sarah."
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E.
Sarah
Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist best known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
- 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: Sarah Target entity description: Sarah is the given name of Sarah Childress Polk, who served as First Lady of the United States during the presidency of James K. Polk.
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Sarah
Sarah is the first name of Sally Jewell, the former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and business executive.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah Jane Negley Mellon, a prominent American socialite and philanthropist from the influential Mellon family.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah Moore Grimké, a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and writer.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, a pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the early 20th century.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of American actress Sarah Paulson, known for her versatile roles in film and television, particularly in "American Horror Story" and "The People v. O. J. Simpson."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
James K. Polk presidency
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
White House social life ⓘ |
| birthName | Sarah Childress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Polk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | First Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
First Lady
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
political hostess ⓘ |
| knownFor |
hosting formal, sober White House social events
ⓘ
supporting her husband’s political career ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedIn |
Tennessee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marriedTo | James K. Polk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting as close political adviser to James K. Polk
ⓘ
serving as First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| notableRole | First Lady during the presidency of James K. Polk ⓘ |
| occupation | First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| relative | James K. Polk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| residence |
Nashville, Tennessee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
White House ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | James K. Polk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Sarah Description of subject: Sarah is the given name of Sarah Childress Polk, who served as First Lady of the United States during the presidency of James K. Polk.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.