Thorvald Stoltenberg
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Thorvald Stoltenberg was a prominent Norwegian Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as Norway’s Minister of Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thorvald Stoltenberg canonical | 3 |
| Karin Stoltenberg | 1 |
| Stoltenberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T942396 — 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: Thorvald Stoltenberg Context triple: [Jens Stoltenberg, parent, Thorvald Stoltenberg]
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A.
Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg is a Norwegian politician who served as Norway’s prime minister and later became the secretary general of NATO.
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B.
Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre is a Norwegian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Norway and is a leading figure in the country’s centre-left politics.
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C.
Thorbjørn Jagland
Thorbjørn Jagland is a Norwegian politician and diplomat who has served as Norway’s prime minister, foreign minister, and as Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
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D.
Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer best known as the creator of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a key figure in the development of open web standards.
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E.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark and later as Secretary General of NATO.
- 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: Thorvald Stoltenberg Target entity description: Thorvald Stoltenberg was a prominent Norwegian Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as Norway’s Minister of Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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A.
Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg is a Norwegian politician who served as Norway’s prime minister and later became the secretary general of NATO.
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B.
Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre is a Norwegian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Norway and is a leading figure in the country’s centre-left politics.
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C.
Thorbjørn Jagland
Thorbjørn Jagland is a Norwegian politician and diplomat who has served as Norway’s prime minister, foreign minister, and as Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
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D.
Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer best known as the creator of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a key figure in the development of open web standards.
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E.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark and later as Secretary General of NATO.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Norwegian politician
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diplomat ⓘ government minister ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child |
Camilla Stoltenberg
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Jens Stoltenberg ⓘ Nini Stoltenberg ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Norway ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Oslo ⓘ |
| employer |
Government of Norway
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United Nations ⓘ |
| familyName |
Thorvald Stoltenberg
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Stoltenberg
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| fatherOf |
Camilla Stoltenberg
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Jens Stoltenberg ⓘ Nini Stoltenberg ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
defence policy
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foreign policy ⓘ international relations ⓘ |
| givenName |
Thorvald Eiriksson
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surface form:
Thorvald
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| languageSpoken | Norwegian ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Norwegian Labour Party
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surface form:
Labour Party (Norway)
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| name | Thorvald Stoltenberg self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Norwegian ⓘ |
| notableRole | leading figure in Norwegian Labour Party ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Norwegian foreign policy leadership
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service as Norwegian Minister of Defence ⓘ service as Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs ⓘ service as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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diplomat ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| partOf |
Norwegian labour movement
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surface form:
Norwegian Labour movement
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| positionHeld |
Minister of Defence
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surface form:
Minister of Defence of Norway
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway ⓘ Norwegian Minister of Defence ⓘ Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs ⓘ Norwegian ambassador ⓘ Norwegian diplomat ⓘ UNHCR ⓘ
surface form:
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR ⓘ
surface form:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
|
| relative | Jens Stoltenberg ⓘ |
| residence | Oslo ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Karin Stoltenberg ⓘ |
| workLocation | Oslo ⓘ |
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: Thorvald Stoltenberg Description of subject: Thorvald Stoltenberg was a prominent Norwegian Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as Norway’s Minister of Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Karin Stoltenberg
this entity surface form:
Stoltenberg