Chelsea Manning
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Chelsea Manning is a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks, sparking global debates on government transparency, surveillance, and war.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chelsea Manning canonical | 14 |
| Bradley Edward Manning | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159487 — 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: Chelsea Manning Context triple: [EFF Pioneer Award, notableRecipient, Chelsea Manning]
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A.
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who became internationally known in 2013 for leaking classified documents revealing global mass surveillance programs.
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B.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher, and activist best known as the founder of WikiLeaks, which released classified and sensitive documents from governments and organizations worldwide.
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C.
United States v. Chelsea Manning
United States v. Chelsea Manning was the high-profile court-martial of U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, resulting in a landmark conviction under U.S. military and national security law.
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D.
Christopher Jordan Wallace
Christopher Jordan Wallace is an American actor and rapper, best known as the son of legendary hip-hop artist The Notorious B.I.G.
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E.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer best known for his investigative reporting on mass surveillance and civil liberties, including publishing Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations.
- 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: Chelsea Manning Target entity description: Chelsea Manning is a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks, sparking global debates on government transparency, surveillance, and war.
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A.
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who became internationally known in 2013 for leaking classified documents revealing global mass surveillance programs.
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B.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher, and activist best known as the founder of WikiLeaks, which released classified and sensitive documents from governments and organizations worldwide.
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C.
United States v. Chelsea Manning
United States v. Chelsea Manning was the high-profile court-martial of U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, resulting in a landmark conviction under U.S. military and national security law.
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D.
Christopher Jordan Wallace
Christopher Jordan Wallace is an American actor and rapper, best known as the son of legendary hip-hop artist The Notorious B.I.G.
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E.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer best known for his investigative reporting on mass surveillance and civil liberties, including publishing Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former U.S. Army soldier
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human ⓘ intelligence analyst ⓘ transgender woman ⓘ whistleblower ⓘ |
| birthName |
Chelsea Manning
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bradley Edward Manning
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| conflict | Iraq War ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
computer fraud-related offenses
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theft of government property ⓘ violations of the U.S. Espionage Act ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1987-12-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfPardonOrCommutation | 2017-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfRelease | 2017-05-17 ⓘ |
| detainedBy |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
United States Armed Forces ⓘ
surface form:
United States military
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| detentionFacility |
Marine Corps Base Quantico
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surface form:
Marine Corps Brig, Quantico
United States Disciplinary Barracks ⓘ
surface form:
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
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| employer | United States Army ⓘ |
| familyName | Manning ⓘ |
| givenName | Chelsea ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
10th Mountain Division
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surface form:
U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division
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| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Private First Class ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
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government transparency movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
arrest in May 2010 for leaking classified documents
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commutation of sentence by President Barack Obama in January 2017 ⓘ court-martial at Fort Meade ⓘ sentencing on 2013-08-21 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Collateral Murder" video leak
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Iraq War documents leak ⓘ
surface form:
Iraq and Afghanistan war logs leak
U.S. diplomatic cables leak ⓘ
surface form:
United States diplomatic cables leak
disclosure of U.S. military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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computer programmer ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| penalty |
35-year prison sentence in 2013
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dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Army ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | ran for U.S. Senate in Maryland Democratic primary in 2018 ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| publisherOfLeaks | WikiLeaks ⓘ |
| residence |
Maryland
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surface form:
Maryland, United States
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| sentenceCommutedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
documentary film "XY Chelsea"
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numerous news articles on government transparency and surveillance ⓘ |
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: Chelsea Manning Description of subject: Chelsea Manning is a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks, sparking global debates on government transparency, surveillance, and war.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bradley Edward Manning