Shannon Rubicam
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Shannon Rubicam is an American singer-songwriter best known as one half of the pop duo Boy Meets Girl and for co-writing major hits for Whitney Houston, including "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shannon Rubicam canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T155643 — 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: Shannon Rubicam Context triple: [I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), songwriter, Shannon Rubicam]
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A.
Lynn Petra Alexander
Lynn Petra Alexander is the birth name of Lynn Margulis, the influential American biologist best known for her work on the endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell evolution.
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B.
April H. Foley
April H. Foley is an American diplomat and public servant best known for serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Katrina Maley Wheeler
Katrina Maley Wheeler is the wife of Portland, Oregon politician and former mayor Ted Wheeler.
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D.
Kira Snyder
Kira Snyder is an American television and film writer known for her work on projects such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and the acclaimed series The Handmaid’s Tale.
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E.
Kimberly S. Budd
Kimberly S. Budd is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
- 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: Shannon Rubicam Target entity description: Shannon Rubicam is an American singer-songwriter best known as one half of the pop duo Boy Meets Girl and for co-writing major hits for Whitney Houston, including "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
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A.
Lynn Petra Alexander
Lynn Petra Alexander is the birth name of Lynn Margulis, the influential American biologist best known for her work on the endosymbiotic theory of eukaryotic cell evolution.
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B.
April H. Foley
April H. Foley is an American diplomat and public servant best known for serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Katrina Maley Wheeler
Katrina Maley Wheeler is the wife of Portland, Oregon politician and former mayor Ted Wheeler.
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D.
Kira Snyder
Kira Snyder is an American television and film writer known for her work on projects such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and the acclaimed series The Handmaid’s Tale.
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E.
Kimberly S. Budd
Kimberly S. Budd is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Shannon Rubicam Description of subject: Shannon Rubicam is an American singer-songwriter best known as one half of the pop duo Boy Meets Girl and for co-writing major hits for Whitney Houston, including "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Boy Meets Girl
subject surface form:
Boy Meets Girl
subject surface form:
George Merrill
subject surface form:
George Merrill