Greta Thunberg
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Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist internationally known for catalyzing the global youth climate movement and pressuring world leaders to take stronger action on climate change.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greta Thunberg canonical | 73 |
| Greta Thunberg (honorary doctorate, not student) | 1 |
| Greta Thunberg school strike for climate | 1 |
| Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg | 1 |
| Thunberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3389 — 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: Greta Thunberg Context triple: [Time Person of the Year, notableRecipient, Greta Thunberg]
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A.
Claudine Gay
Claudine Gay is an American political scientist and academic leader who served as the 30th president of Harvard University and the first Black person to hold the position.
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B.
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is a pioneering British primatologist and conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and her advocacy for animal welfare and environmental protection.
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C.
Eleni Kounalakis
Eleni Kounalakis is an American politician and former U.S. ambassador who serves as the lieutenant governor of California.
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D.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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E.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
- 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: Greta Thunberg Target entity description: Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist internationally known for catalyzing the global youth climate movement and pressuring world leaders to take stronger action on climate change.
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A.
Claudine Gay
Claudine Gay is an American political scientist and academic leader who served as the 30th president of Harvard University and the first Black person to hold the position.
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B.
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is a pioneering British primatologist and conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and her advocacy for animal welfare and environmental protection.
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C.
Eleni Kounalakis
Eleni Kounalakis is an American politician and former U.S. ambassador who serves as the lieutenant governor of California.
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D.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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E.
Lynn
Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
climate activist
ⓘ
environmental activist ⓘ human ⓘ public figure ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
climate justice for the Global South
ⓘ
keeping global warming below 1.5°C ⓘ listening to climate science ⓘ rapid phase-out of fossil fuels ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ambassador of Conscience Award
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Fritt Ord Award ⓘ Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity ⓘ Right Livelihood Award ⓘ Time Person of the Year ⓘ
surface form:
Time Person of the Year 2019
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| birthDate | 2003-01-03 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Stockholm County
ⓘ
surface form:
Stockholm
Sweden ⓘ |
| cause |
climate justice
ⓘ
environmental protection ⓘ implementation of Paris Agreement ⓘ reduction of greenhouse gas emissions ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith |
Malena Ernman
ⓘ
surface form:
Beata Ernman
Malena Ernman ⓘ Svante Thunberg ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sweden ⓘ |
| criticizes |
continued fossil fuel expansion
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greenwashing by corporations ⓘ insufficient climate policies of world leaders ⓘ |
| diagnosis |
Asperger syndrome
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obsessive–compulsive disorder ⓘ selective mutism ⓘ |
| educationLevel | secondary education (interrupted for activism) ⓘ |
| familyName |
Greta Thunberg
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Thunberg
|
| founded | Fridays for Future ⓘ |
| fullName |
Greta Thunberg
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName |
Svante Thunberg
ⓘ
surface form:
Greta
|
| hasSlogan | "Skolstrejk för klimatet" ⓘ |
| hasSocialMediaProfile |
Instagram
ⓘ
Twitter, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
|
| inspired | global youth climate movement ⓘ |
| knownFor |
"How dare you" speech at the UN in 2019
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addressing the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) ⓘ addressing the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit ⓘ inspiring global youth climate strikes ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Swedish ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance |
Time Person of the Year
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Person of the Year 2019 cover
|
| movement | Fridays for Future ⓘ |
| name | Greta Thunberg self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Swedish ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Nobel Peace Prize
ⓘ
Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Peace Prize 2019
Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Peace Prize 2020
Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Peace Prize 2021
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| notableEvent | sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on the yacht Malizia II in 2019 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
climate change activism
ⓘ
school strike for climate ⓘ |
| occupation |
climate activist
ⓘ
public speaker ⓘ |
| parent |
Malena Ernman
ⓘ
Svante Thunberg ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2019 Global Climate Strike
ⓘ
UN Climate Action Summit 2019 ⓘ World Economic Forum in Davos ⓘ |
| publication |
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
ⓘ
Our House Is on Fire ⓘ The Climate Book ⓘ |
| relative | Olof Thunberg ⓘ |
| residence | Stockholm County ⓘ |
| selfDescription | "a climate activist with Asperger" ⓘ |
| subjectOf | documentary film "I Am Greta" ⓘ |
| translatedSlogan | "School strike for climate" ⓘ |
| travelPreference | avoiding air travel for climate reasons ⓘ |
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: Greta Thunberg Description of subject: Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist internationally known for catalyzing the global youth climate movement and pressuring world leaders to take stronger action on climate change.
Referenced by (77)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Our House Is on Fire
subject surface form:
Svante Thunberg
subject surface form:
Malena Ernman
subject surface form:
Olof Thunberg
subject surface form:
I Am Greta
subject surface form:
I Am Greta
subject surface form:
Ernman–Thunberg family
subject surface form:
Ernman–Thunberg family
subject surface form:
Malena Ernman
subject surface form:
Svante Thunberg