Hobson
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Hobson is the surname of Mellody Hobson, a prominent American businesswoman and co-CEO of Ariel Investments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hobson canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1805717 — 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: Hobson Context triple: [Mellody Hobson, familyName, Hobson]
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A.
Hobuck
Hobuck is the original settlement name that preceded the modern city of Hoboken, New Jersey.
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B.
Houbie
Houbie is the main village on the Shetland island of Fetlar in Scotland.
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C.
Thirlby
Thirlby is the surname of Olivia Thirlby, an American actress known for roles in films such as "Juno" and "Dredd."
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D.
Otis
Otis is a globally recognized manufacturer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, known for pioneering vertical transportation technologies.
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E.
Otis
"Otis" is a hip-hop track by Jay-Z and Kanye West featuring a prominent Otis Redding sample, known for its celebratory tone and showcase of their lyrical chemistry.
- 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: Hobson Target entity description: Hobson is the surname of Mellody Hobson, a prominent American businesswoman and co-CEO of Ariel Investments.
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A.
Hobuck
Hobuck is the original settlement name that preceded the modern city of Hoboken, New Jersey.
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B.
Houbie
Houbie is the main village on the Shetland island of Fetlar in Scotland.
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C.
Thirlby
Thirlby is the surname of Olivia Thirlby, an American actress known for roles in films such as "Juno" and "Dredd."
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D.
Otis
Otis is a globally recognized manufacturer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, known for pioneering vertical transportation technologies.
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E.
Otis
"Otis" is a hip-hop track by Jay-Z and Kanye West featuring a prominent Otis Redding sample, known for its celebratory tone and showcase of their lyrical chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Hobson Description of subject: Hobson is the surname of Mellody Hobson, a prominent American businesswoman and co-CEO of Ariel Investments.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mellody Hobson
subject surface form:
Henry Hobson Richardson