Katharine Gun
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Katharine Gun is a former British intelligence translator and whistleblower known for leaking a classified memo about a U.S. spying operation aimed at influencing United Nations diplomats before the 2003 Iraq War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Katharine Gun canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9230178 — 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: Katharine Gun Context triple: [Sam Adams Award, notableRecipient, Katharine Gun]
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A.
Kate Miles
Kate Miles is an actress known for her role in the acclaimed British television drama "Longford."
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B.
Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill is a British-American foreign policy expert and former U.S. National Security Council official known for her expertise on Russia and her testimony in the first Trump impeachment inquiry.
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C.
Viscount Snowden
Viscount Snowden was the noble title granted to Philip Snowden, a prominent British Labour politician who served as the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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D.
Daniel Assange
Daniel Assange is the son of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and has occasionally drawn public attention due to his father's high-profile legal and political controversies.
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E.
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning is a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks, sparking global debates on government transparency, surveillance, and war.
- 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: Katharine Gun Target entity description: Katharine Gun is a former British intelligence translator and whistleblower known for leaking a classified memo about a U.S. spying operation aimed at influencing United Nations diplomats before the 2003 Iraq War.
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A.
Kate Miles
Kate Miles is an actress known for her role in the acclaimed British television drama "Longford."
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B.
Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill is a British-American foreign policy expert and former U.S. National Security Council official known for her expertise on Russia and her testimony in the first Trump impeachment inquiry.
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C.
Viscount Snowden
Viscount Snowden was the noble title granted to Philip Snowden, a prominent British Labour politician who served as the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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D.
Daniel Assange
Daniel Assange is the son of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and has occasionally drawn public attention due to his father's high-profile legal and political controversies.
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E.
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning is a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks, sparking global debates on government transparency, surveillance, and war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
translator ⓘ whistleblower ⓘ |
| advocacy |
civil liberties
ⓘ
government transparency ⓘ whistleblower protections ⓘ |
| almaMater | Durham University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedIn | documentary The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1974-03-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Taipei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| charge | breach of the Official Secrets Act 1989 ⓘ |
| chargeDate | 2003-11 ⓘ |
| chargeOutcome | charges dropped ⓘ |
| chargeOutcomeDate | 2004-02-25 ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| education | studied Japanese at the University of Durham ⓘ |
| employer |
GCHQ
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Government Communications Headquarters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | signals intelligence translation ⓘ |
| fullName | Katharine Teresa Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Katharine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | exposing U.S.-U.K. spying operation on UN diplomats in 2003 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| leakedDocumentDate | 2003-01 ⓘ |
| leakedDocumentFrom | National Security Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leakedDocumentType | classified memo ⓘ |
| leakedTo |
The Observer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
journalist Martin Bright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaCoverageBy |
BBC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Guardian NERFINISHED ⓘ The Observer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | preventing an illegal war in Iraq ⓘ |
| nationalityAtBirth | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | Leak of NSA memo on UN spying before 2003 Iraq War ⓘ |
| occupation |
translator
ⓘ
whistleblower ⓘ |
| opposedConflict | 2003 invasion of Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Keira Knightley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse | Yasar Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
book The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War
ⓘ
film Official Secrets ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cheltenham 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: Katharine Gun Description of subject: Katharine Gun is a former British intelligence translator and whistleblower known for leaking a classified memo about a U.S. spying operation aimed at influencing United Nations diplomats before the 2003 Iraq War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.