Yogananda Pittman (acting)
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Yogananda Pittman is a U.S. law enforcement official who served as the acting chief of the United States Capitol Police following the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yogananda Pittman (acting) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1139321 — 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: Yogananda Pittman (acting) Context triple: [Chief of the United States Capitol Police, precededByOfficeHolder, Yogananda Pittman (acting)]
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A.
Clifton Daniel
Clifton Daniel was an American newspaper editor and managing editor of The New York Times, known also as the son-in-law of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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B.
Warren Spady
Warren Spady is a designer best known for creating the trophy awarded in the historic Oregon–Oregon State college football rivalry.
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C.
Wesley Addy
Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
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D.
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy was an American actor known for his prolific film, television, and stage career, including notable roles in classic screwball comedies and the film "Rosemary's Baby."
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E.
Terry Metcalf
Terry Metcalf is a former American football running back and return specialist best known for his dynamic playmaking with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1970s.
- 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: Yogananda Pittman (acting) Target entity description: Yogananda Pittman is a U.S. law enforcement official who served as the acting chief of the United States Capitol Police following the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
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A.
Clifton Daniel
Clifton Daniel was an American newspaper editor and managing editor of The New York Times, known also as the son-in-law of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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B.
Warren Spady
Warren Spady is a designer best known for creating the trophy awarded in the historic Oregon–Oregon State college football rivalry.
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C.
Wesley Addy
Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
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D.
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy was an American actor known for his prolific film, television, and stage career, including notable roles in classic screwball comedies and the film "Rosemary's Baby."
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E.
Terry Metcalf
Terry Metcalf is a former American football running back and return specialist best known for his dynamic playmaking with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
law enforcement officer ⓘ police chief ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Nancy Pelosi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Capitol Police ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| fieldOfWork |
law enforcement
ⓘ
public safety ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
U.S. Congress buildings
ⓘ
United States Capitol grounds ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Capitol Police ⓘ |
| name | Yogananda Pittman ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | one of the first Black women to lead the United States Capitol Police ⓘ |
| notableEvent | January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as acting chief of the United States Capitol Police after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol ⓘ |
| occupation |
law enforcement officer
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| officeContested | Chief of the United States Capitol Police ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. federal law enforcement community ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
acting Chief of the United States Capitol Police
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assistant chief of police ⓘ deputy chief of police ⓘ |
| precededInOfficeBy | Steven Sund ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
|
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| workArea | United States Capitol ⓘ |
| 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: Yogananda Pittman (acting) Description of subject: Yogananda Pittman is a U.S. law enforcement official who served as the acting chief of the United States Capitol Police following the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.