Jennifer Granholm
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Jennifer Granholm is an American politician and attorney who served as the Democratic governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011 and later as U.S. Secretary of Energy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Granholm canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6825322 — 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: Jennifer Granholm Context triple: [Rick Snyder, precededBy, Jennifer Granholm]
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A.
Gail Strickland
Gail Strickland is an American character actress known for her work in film and television since the 1970s.
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B.
Beth Ehlers
Beth Ehlers is an American actress best known for her long-running role as Harley Cooper on the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light."
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C.
Hannah Pingree
Hannah Pingree is an American politician from Maine who has served as Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and is the daughter of U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree.
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D.
Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree is an American Democratic politician and U.S. Representative from Maine known for her work on environmental, agricultural, and campaign finance reform issues.
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E.
Rick Snyder
Rick Snyder is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.
- 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: Jennifer Granholm Target entity description: Jennifer Granholm is an American politician and attorney who served as the Democratic governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011 and later as U.S. Secretary of Energy.
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A.
Gail Strickland
Gail Strickland is an American character actress known for her work in film and television since the 1970s.
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B.
Beth Ehlers
Beth Ehlers is an American actress best known for her long-running role as Harley Cooper on the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light."
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C.
Hannah Pingree
Hannah Pingree is an American politician from Maine who has served as Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and is the daughter of U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree.
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D.
Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree is an American Democratic politician and U.S. Representative from Maine known for her work on environmental, agricultural, and campaign finance reform issues.
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E.
Rick Snyder
Rick Snyder is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Democratic Party politician
ⓘ
attorney ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
ⓘ
Juris Doctor ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Joe Biden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Jennifer Mulhern Granholm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-02-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Law School
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| endTime | 2011-01-01 ⓘ |
| familyName | Granholm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economic development
ⓘ
energy policy ⓘ |
| givenName | Jennifer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Governors Association
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Governors Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jennifer Granholm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first female Governor of Michigan ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Governor’s Story: The Fight for Jobs and America’s Economic Future NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| officeEndTime (Attorney General of Michigan) | 2003-01-01 ⓘ |
| officeEndTime (Governor of Michigan) | 2011-01-01 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime (Attorney General of Michigan) | 1999-01-01 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime (Governor of Michigan) | 2003-01-01 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime (U.S. Secretary of Energy) | 2021-02-25 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| positionHeld |
Attorney General of Michigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Governor of Michigan ⓘ Professor of Practice in Political Science at University of California, Berkeley ⓘ United States Secretary of Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy (Attorney General of Michigan) | Frank J. Kelley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy (Governor of Michigan) | John Engler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy (U.S. Secretary of Energy) | Dan Brouillette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Lansing, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Daniel Mulhern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 2003-01-01 ⓘ |
| succeededBy (Attorney General of Michigan) | Mike Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy (Governor of Michigan) | Rick Snyder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jennifer Granholm Description of subject: Jennifer Granholm is an American politician and attorney who served as the Democratic governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011 and later as U.S. Secretary of Energy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.