Angela Duckworth
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Angela Duckworth is an American psychologist and author best known for her research on grit and self-control and for popularizing the idea that perseverance and passion are key drivers of success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Angela Duckworth canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T749904 — 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: Angela Duckworth Context triple: [University of Pennsylvania, hasNotableFaculty, Angela Duckworth]
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A.
Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and a member of the original "PayPal Mafia."
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B.
Urie McCleary
Urie McCleary was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist and former Microsoft executive best known for co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and her global work on health, education, and gender equality.
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D.
Jean Rogers
Jean Rogers is known as the wife of American country music singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers.
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E.
Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides is an American cognitive psychologist renowned for pioneering the field of evolutionary psychology, particularly through her work on the evolved architecture of the human mind and social reasoning.
- 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: Angela Duckworth Target entity description: Angela Duckworth is an American psychologist and author best known for her research on grit and self-control and for popularizing the idea that perseverance and passion are key drivers of success.
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A.
Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and a member of the original "PayPal Mafia."
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B.
Urie McCleary
Urie McCleary was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist and former Microsoft executive best known for co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and her global work on health, education, and gender equality.
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D.
Jean Rogers
Jean Rogers is known as the wife of American country music singer and songwriter Kenny Rogers.
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E.
Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides is an American cognitive psychologist renowned for pioneering the field of evolutionary psychology, particularly through her work on the evolved architecture of the human mind and social reasoning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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author ⓘ founder ⓘ person ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Harvard University
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surface form:
Harvard College
University of Oxford ⓘ University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MacArthur Fellowship
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MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ
surface form:
MacArthur Genius Grant
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| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| degree |
PhD in psychology
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bachelor's degree in neurobiology ⓘ master's degree in neuroscience ⓘ |
| employer | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| familyName | Duckworth ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
educational psychology
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personality psychology ⓘ positive psychology ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| founded | Character Lab ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Angela ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
grit
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passion and perseverance ⓘ |
| hasRole |
public speaker
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science communicator ⓘ |
| influenced | education policy discussions on character education ⓘ |
| knownFor |
popularizing the concept of grit
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research on grit ⓘ research on self-control ⓘ the idea that perseverance and passion are key drivers of success ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Angela Duckworth self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea | grit as a predictor of success beyond talent ⓘ |
| notableWork | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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professor ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
achievement
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character development ⓘ grit ⓘ motivation ⓘ self-control ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: Angela Duckworth Description of subject: Angela Duckworth is an American psychologist and author best known for her research on grit and self-control and for popularizing the idea that perseverance and passion are key drivers of success.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
University of Pennsylvania