Susan
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Susan is the given name of the American writer, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, renowned for her influential essays on culture and aesthetics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7390260 — 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: Susan Context triple: [Susan Sontag, givenName, Susan]
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Susan
Susan is the middle name of Olivia Susan Clemens.
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Susan
Susan is the birth name of American actress Sigourney Weaver, renowned for her iconic roles in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise.
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Susan
Susan is a supporting character in the "Nosedive" episode of the anthology television series Black Mirror.
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Susan
Susan "Suze" Rotolo was an American artist and political activist best known as Bob Dylan’s early 1960s girlfriend and the woman pictured with him on the cover of his album "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan."
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Susan
Susan is the given name of American actress Susan Kelechi Watson, known for her role as Beth Pearson on the television series "This Is Us."
- 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: Susan Target entity description: Susan is the given name of the American writer, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, renowned for her influential essays on culture and aesthetics.
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Susan
Susan is the given name of Susan B. Anthony, a leading American social reformer and key figure in the women’s suffrage movement.
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B.
Susan
Susan is the birth name of American actress Sigourney Weaver, renowned for her iconic roles in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise.
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C.
Susan
Susan is the given name of American painter and photographer Susan Macdowell Eakins, known for her portraits and still lifes.
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D.
Susan
Susan is the given name of American actress Susan Kelechi Watson, known for her role as Beth Pearson on the television series "This Is Us."
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Susan
Susan is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "lily" that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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filmmaker ⓘ human ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Jerusalem Prize
NERFINISHED
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National Book Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Critics Circle Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince of Asturias Award for Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | leukemia ⓘ |
| child | David Rieff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-01-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-12-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of Chicago ⓘ University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aesthetics
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cultural criticism ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ photography theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Susan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
aesthetics
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culture ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| movement |
modernism
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postmodernism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
analysis of photography as a way of seeing
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critique of interpretation in art ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Against Interpretation
NERFINISHED
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Illness as Metaphor NERFINISHED ⓘ Notes on Camp NERFINISHED ⓘ On Photography NERFINISHED ⓘ Regarding the Pain of Others NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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filmmaker ⓘ novelist ⓘ political activist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Philip Rieff 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: Susan Description of subject: Susan is the given name of the American writer, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, renowned for her influential essays on culture and aesthetics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.