Joanna Cannan
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Joanna Cannan was a British author best known for her detective fiction and children’s pony stories, and as the mother of crime writers Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh) and the Pullein-Thompson sisters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joanna Cannan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13758274 — 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: Joanna Cannan Context triple: [Cannan, hasNotableBearer, Joanna Cannan]
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A.
Joanna Miller
Joanna Miller is a member of the Disney family, known as a daughter of philanthropist and Walt Disney’s daughter Diane Disney Miller.
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B.
Joanna Miller
Joanna Miller is a member of the Miller family and a relative of filmmaker Christopher Miller.
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C.
Juliana Raymond
Juliana Raymond is a daughter of 19th-century American journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond, co-founder of The New York Times.
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D.
Amy Gilliam
Amy Gilliam is a film producer and the daughter of director Terry Gilliam, known for her work on projects such as the fantasy film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."
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E.
Joanna Simon
Joanna Simon was an American mezzo-soprano opera singer and later a television arts correspondent, known for her distinguished vocal career and cultural journalism.
- 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: Joanna Cannan Target entity description: Joanna Cannan was a British author best known for her detective fiction and children’s pony stories, and as the mother of crime writers Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh) and the Pullein-Thompson sisters.
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A.
Joanna Miller
Joanna Miller is a member of the Disney family, known as a daughter of philanthropist and Walt Disney’s daughter Diane Disney Miller.
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B.
Joanna Miller
Joanna Miller is a member of the Miller family and a relative of filmmaker Christopher Miller.
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C.
Juliana Raymond
Juliana Raymond is a daughter of 19th-century American journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond, co-founder of The New York Times.
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D.
Amy Gilliam
Amy Gilliam is a film producer and the daughter of director Terry Gilliam, known for her work on projects such as the fantasy film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."
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E.
Joanna Simon
Joanna Simon was an American mezzo-soprano opera singer and later a television arts correspondent, known for her distinguished vocal career and cultural journalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.