Sonji Roi
E281683
Sonji Roi was an American cocktail waitress best known as the first wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, to whom she was briefly married in the mid-1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sonji Roi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2594489 — 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: Sonji Roi Context triple: [Muhammad Ali, spouse, Sonji Roi]
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A.
Sonya Wilde
Sonya Wilde is an American actress best known for her leading role in the 1960 film exploring racial identity and passing.
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B.
Alice Rivaz
Alice Rivaz was a Swiss novelist and short story writer known for her introspective, socially engaged portrayals of women's lives in 20th-century Switzerland.
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C.
Leona Vicario
Leona Vicario was a prominent Mexican independence heroine, journalist, and supporter of the insurgent cause against Spanish rule in the early 19th century.
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D.
Sonia
Sonia is a central female character in the romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," whose relationships and personal growth intersect with the movie’s ensemble cast and themes about modern dating.
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E.
Sonia
Sonia is the given name of Sonia Gandhi, an Italian-born Indian politician and former president of the Indian National Congress.
- 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: Sonji Roi Target entity description: Sonji Roi was an American cocktail waitress best known as the first wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, to whom she was briefly married in the mid-1960s.
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A.
Sonya Wilde
Sonya Wilde is an American actress best known for her leading role in the 1960 film exploring racial identity and passing.
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B.
Alice Rivaz
Alice Rivaz was a Swiss novelist and short story writer known for her introspective, socially engaged portrayals of women's lives in 20th-century Switzerland.
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C.
Leona Vicario
Leona Vicario was a prominent Mexican independence heroine, journalist, and supporter of the insurgent cause against Spanish rule in the early 19th century.
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D.
Sonia
Sonia is a central female character in the romantic comedy film "Think Like a Man," whose relationships and personal growth intersect with the movie’s ensemble cast and themes about modern dating.
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E.
Sonia
Sonia is the given name of Sonia Gandhi, an Italian-born Indian politician and former president of the Indian National Congress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| causeOfDivorce | disagreements over Islamic dress and lifestyle expectations ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced from Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1966 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1964 ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | interviews about her marriage to Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| notableEvent | marriage to Muhammad Ali in the mid-1960s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of Muhammad Ali
ⓘ
publicly discussing her brief marriage to Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| occupation | cocktail waitress ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Chicago ⓘ |
| relative |
in-laws: Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.
ⓘ
in-laws: Odessa Clay ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| saidToBeTheSameAs | Sonji Clay ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Muhammad Ali ⓘ |
| spouseNameAtMarriage |
Muhammad Ali
ⓘ
surface form:
Cassius Clay
|
| spouseNotableFor | world heavyweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | professional boxer ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Sonji Roi Description of subject: Sonji Roi was an American cocktail waitress best known as the first wife of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, to whom she was briefly married in the mid-1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.