Can local VLMs recognize celebrities?
We built a 90-image public-figure recognition set from Wikipedia and Wikimedia portraits. The goal was not face verification. The task was simpler and more useful for benchmark routing: show a VLM one image and ask it to name the person.
The set has three tiers: 30 global icons, 30 field-famous specialists, and 30 long-tail Wikipedia notables. That split matters. A model can look excellent on Taylor Swift, Barack Obama, or Lionel Messi, then collapse when the person is well known only inside chess, machine learning, literature, Olympic sport, or public policy.
Six local VLMs completed the run. Qwen 3.5 122B was the best overall at 46/90, followed by Qwen 3.6 35B at 44/90. The main result is still humbling: every model was nearly perfect on global icons, but the long-tail group was almost entirely unsolved.
Overall recognition score
PASS means the model named the photographed person or an unambiguous common alias. UNKNOWN, generic descriptions, and wrong people are FAIL.
| VLM | Total | Global icons | Field-famous | Long-tail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.5 122B | 46/90 (51%) | 30/30 (100%) | 14/30 (47%) | 2/30 (7%) |
| Qwen 3.6 35B | 44/90 (49%) | 30/30 (100%) | 11/30 (37%) | 3/30 (10%) |
| Qwen3-VL | 40/90 (44%) | 30/30 (100%) | 9/30 (30%) | 1/30 (3%) |
| Qwen 3.6 27B | 38/90 (42%) | 30/30 (100%) | 7/30 (23%) | 1/30 (3%) |
| DiffusionGemma 26B A4B | 35/90 (39%) | 29/30 (97%) | 6/30 (20%) | 0/30 (0%) |
| Gemma 4 26B | 34/90 (38%) | 29/30 (97%) | 5/30 (17%) | 0/30 (0%) |
What changed by difficulty
The easy tier mostly measures whether a VLM has robust recognition for globally repeated faces. Qwen 3.5, Qwen 3.6, and Qwen3-VL all scored 30/30 there. Gemma 4 26B and DiffusionGemma each missed Jackie Chan, confidently naming someone else.
The medium tier is where the models separated. Qwen 3.5 122B recognized 14 of 30 field-famous people, including figures such as Linus Torvalds, Vitalik Buterin, Magnus Carlsen, Shohei Ohtani, and Hayao Miyazaki. That is useful, but it is still less than half of the tier.
The hard tier exposed the limit of local celebrity recognition. Qwen 3.6 35B found three names, Qwen 3.5 found two, Qwen3-VL and Qwen 3.6 27B found one, and both Gemma-family completed runs found none. There were 43 people that no model identified correctly.
Long-tail names any model found
Qwen 3.5 122B: Nnedi Okorafor, Mariana Pajón
Qwen 3.6 35B: Nnedi Okorafor, Mariana Pajón, Clarisse Agbegnenou
Qwen3-VL: Nnedi Okorafor
Qwen 3.6 27B: Nnedi Okorafor
DiffusionGemma 26B A4B: none
Gemma 4 26B: none
Consensus misses
No completed model identified these examples: Jennifer Doudna, Katalin Karikó, Frances Arnold, Donna Strickland, Terence Tao, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Guido van Rossum, Demis Hassabis, Judit Polgár, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and others.
Conclusion
For this task, the strongest local judge was Qwen 3.5 122B. It had the best total score and the best medium-tier result, which is the part of the set that most closely tests broad world knowledge instead of just internet-icon memorization.
Qwen 3.6 35B was close and actually found the most long-tail names, but it lagged Qwen 3.5 on the field-famous tier. Qwen3-VL was a solid smaller baseline. The Gemma-family completed runs were nearly perfect on global icons, but weak once the names moved outside mass culture.
The broader takeaway is that celebrity recognition is not a single capability. Current local VLMs can identify famous faces that are saturated across the web, but they are much less reliable for public figures who are famous within a field. If we use this as an ImageBench VLM route, the benchmark should keep the three tiers separate instead of reporting one blended score.
Full per-image matrix
The prediction text is the parsed name from the model response. Click an image to inspect the source portrait.
| Person | Image | Tier | Category | Qwen 3.5 122B | Qwen 3.6 35B | Qwen3-VL | Qwen 3.6 27B | DiffusionGemma 26B A4B | Gemma 4 26B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy · Global icons · 30 images | |||||||||
| Albert Einstein 320 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Albert Einstein | PASS Albert Einstein | PASS Albert Einstein | PASS Albert Einstein | PASS Albert Einstein | PASS Albert Einstein | |
| Marilyn Monroe 239 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Marilyn Monroe | PASS Marilyn Monroe | PASS Marilyn Monroe | PASS Marilyn Monroe | PASS Marilyn Monroe | PASS Marilyn Monroe | |
| Michael Jackson 324 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Michael Jackson | PASS Michael Jackson | PASS Michael Jackson | PASS Michael Jackson | PASS Michael Jackson | PASS Michael Jackson | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo 209 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Cristiano Ronaldo | PASS Cristiano Ronaldo | PASS Cristiano Ronaldo | PASS Cristiano Ronaldo | PASS Cristiano Ronaldo | PASS Cristiano Ronaldo | |
| Lionel Messi 219 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Lionel Messi | PASS Lionel Messi | PASS Lionel Messi | PASS Lionel Messi | PASS Lionel Messi | PASS Lionel Messi | |
| Taylor Swift 174 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Taylor Swift | PASS Taylor Swift | PASS Taylor Swift | PASS Taylor Swift | PASS Taylor Swift | PASS Taylor Swift | |
| Barack Obama 340 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Barack Obama | PASS Barack Obama | PASS Barack Obama | PASS Barack Obama | PASS Barack Obama | PASS Barack Obama | |
| Elizabeth II 253 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Queen Elizabeth II | PASS Queen Elizabeth II | PASS Queen Elizabeth II | PASS Queen Elizabeth II | PASS Queen Elizabeth II | PASS Queen Elizabeth II | |
| Donald Trump 328 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Donald Trump | PASS Donald Trump | PASS Donald Trump | PASS Donald Trump | PASS Donald Trump | PASS Donald Trump | |
| Beyoncé 173 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Beyoncé | PASS Beyoncé | PASS Beyoncé | PASS Beyoncé | PASS Beyoncé | PASS Beyoncé | |
| Leonardo DiCaprio 149 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Leonardo DiCaprio | PASS Leonardo DiCaprio | PASS Leonardo DiCaprio | PASS Leonardo DiCaprio | PASS Leonardo DiCaprio | PASS Leonardo DiCaprio | |
| Oprah Winfrey 134 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Oprah Winfrey | PASS Oprah Winfrey | PASS Oprah Winfrey | PASS Oprah Winfrey | PASS Oprah Winfrey | PASS Oprah Winfrey | |
| Elon Musk 199 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Elon Musk | PASS Elon Musk | PASS Elon Musk | PASS Elon Musk | PASS Elon Musk | PASS Elon Musk | |
| Nelson Mandela 292 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Nelson Mandela | PASS Nelson Mandela | PASS Nelson Mandela | PASS Nelson Mandela | PASS Nelson Mandela | PASS Nelson Mandela | |
| Mahatma Gandhi 283 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Mahatma Gandhi | PASS Mahatma Gandhi | PASS Mahatma Gandhi | PASS Mahatma Gandhi | PASS Mahatma Gandhi | PASS Mahatma Gandhi | |
| Martin Luther King Jr. 245 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Martin Luther King Jr. | PASS Martin Luther King Jr. | PASS Martin Luther King Jr. | PASS Martin Luther King Jr. | PASS Martin Luther King Jr. | PASS Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| Muhammad Ali 182 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Muhammad Ali | PASS Muhammad Ali | PASS Muhammad Ali | PASS Muhammad Ali | PASS Muhammad Ali | PASS Muhammad Ali | |
| Serena Williams 124 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Serena Williams | PASS Serena Williams | PASS Serena Williams | PASS Serena Williams | PASS Serena Williams | PASS Serena Williams | |
| Madonna 190 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Madonna | PASS Madonna | PASS Madonna | PASS Madonna | PASS Madonna | PASS Madonna | |
| Tom Cruise 126 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Tom Cruise | PASS Tom Cruise | PASS Tom Cruise | PASS Tom Cruise | PASS Tom Cruise | PASS Tom Cruise | |
| Jackie Chan 161 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Jackie Chan | PASS Jackie Chan | PASS Jackie Chan | PASS Jackie Chan | FAIL Tony Leung | FAIL Ang Lee | |
| Bruce Lee 162 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Bruce Lee | PASS Bruce Lee | PASS Bruce Lee | PASS Bruce Lee | PASS Bruce Lee | PASS Bruce Lee | |
| Rihanna 156 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Rihanna | PASS Rihanna | PASS Rihanna | PASS Rihanna | PASS Rihanna | PASS Rihanna | |
| Lady Gaga 196 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Lady Gaga | PASS Lady Gaga | PASS Lady Gaga | PASS Lady Gaga | PASS Lady Gaga | PASS Lady Gaga | |
| Bill Gates 242 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Bill Gates | PASS Bill Gates | PASS Bill Gates | PASS Bill Gates | PASS Bill Gates | PASS Bill Gates | |
| Steve Jobs 228 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Steve Jobs | PASS Steve Jobs | PASS Steve Jobs | PASS Steve Jobs | PASS Steve Jobs | PASS Steve Jobs | |
| Diana, Princess of Wales 151 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Diana, Princess of Wales | PASS Princess Diana | PASS Diana, Princess of Wales | PASS Princess Diana | PASS Princess Diana | PASS Princess Diana | |
| Usain Bolt 136 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Usain Bolt | PASS Usain Bolt | PASS Usain Bolt | PASS Usain Bolt | PASS Usain Bolt | PASS Usain Bolt | |
| Kim Kardashian 113 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Kim Kardashian | PASS Kim Kardashian | PASS Kim Kardashian | PASS Kim Kardashian | PASS Kim Kardashian | PASS Kim Kardashian | |
| Dwayne Johnson 111 sitelinks | Easy | Global icons | PASS Dwayne Johnson | PASS Dwayne Johnson | PASS Dwayne Johnson | PASS Dwayne Johnson | PASS Dwayne Johnson | PASS Dwayne Johnson | |
| Medium · Field-famous specialists · 30 images | |||||||||
| Jennifer Doudna 84 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Janet Yellen | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Katalin Karikó 71 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Frances Arnold 77 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Ellen J. Kullman | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Donna Strickland 89 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Mary Simon | FAIL Elizabeth May | FAIL Maryam Mirzakhani | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell 64 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Jocelyn Bell Burnell | PASS Jocelyn Bell Burnell | FAIL Jillian B. Burnell | FAIL UNKNOWN | PASS Bell Burnell | FAIL Jocelyn Burnell | |
| Fei-Fei Li 35 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Fei-Fei Li | FAIL Doreen Bogdan-Martin | FAIL Hsiao Biing-Hwang | FAIL Neri Oxman | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Terence Tao 54 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Simon Tam | FAIL Roger Shih | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Terence Tan | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Emmanuelle Charpentier 80 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Geoffrey Hinton 70 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Jean-Luc Godard | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Jean-Jacques Rousseau | FAIL Jean-Claude Paye | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Yoshua Bengio 35 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Alain Prost | FAIL Yannis Mouratidis | FAIL John Lasseter | FAIL Paul Merson | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Linus Torvalds 151 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Linus Torvalds | FAIL Kevin Spacey | FAIL John Lasseter | FAIL Brian Cox | FAIL Robert Gates | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Guido van Rossum 55 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Linus Torvalds | FAIL Gilad Atzmon | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Vitalik Buterin 38 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Vitalik Buterin | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Mark Zuckerberg | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Peter Thiel | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Demis Hassabis 58 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Romain Bressoux | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Magnus Carlsen 110 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Magnus Carlsen | PASS Magnus Carlsen | PASS Magnus Carlsen | PASS Magnus Carlsen | PASS Magnus Carlsen | PASS Magnus Carlsen | |
| Judit Polgár 71 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Alisa Melekhina | FAIL Monika Socko | FAIL Anna Muzychuk | FAIL Alexandra Kosteniuk | FAIL Konstantina Giorgina | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov 65 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Valdis Dombrovskis | FAIL Barnaby Joyce | FAIL Andrzej Zulawski | FAIL Janusz Kowalski | FAIL Valdemis Rēika | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Tadej Pogačar 52 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Tadej Pogačar | PASS Tadej Pogačar | PASS Tadej Pogačar | PASS Tadej Pogačar | FAIL Primož Roglič | PASS Tadej Pogačar | |
| Eliud Kipchoge 56 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Eliud Kipchoge | PASS Eliud Kipchoge | PASS Kipchoge | PASS Eliud Kipchoge | PASS Eliud Kipchoge | PASS Eliud Kipchoge | |
| Mikaela Shiffrin 49 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL MacKenzie Mauzy | FAIL Katelyn Nacon | FAIL Laura Dern | FAIL Jayme Lawson | FAIL Gabby Douglas | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Katie Ledecky 56 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Katie Ledecky | PASS Katie Ledecky | FAIL Rebecca Soni | FAIL Kara Lynn Joyce | FAIL Kathleen Smith | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Aitana Bonmatí 52 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Mireia Belmonte | FAIL Carolina Marín | FAIL Laura Pausini | FAIL Nadia Nadim | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Siya Kolisi 21 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Siya Kolisi | PASS Siya Kolisi | PASS Siya Kolisi | PASS Siya Kolisi | PASS Siya Kolisi | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Shohei Ohtani 37 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Shohei Ohtani | PASS Shohei Ohtani | PASS Shohei Ohtani | PASS Shohei Ohtani | PASS Shohei Ohtani | PASS Shohei Ohtani | |
| Björk 108 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL Enya | FAIL Cher | FAIL Sarah Brightman | FAIL Cher | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Lady Gaga | |
| Hayao Miyazaki 110 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Hayao Miyazaki | PASS Hayao Miyazaki | PASS Hayao Miyazaki | FAIL Akira Kurosawa | PASS Hayao Miyazaki | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 94 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Aunjanue Ellis | FAIL Danai Gurira | FAIL Danai Gurira | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Zaha Hadid 96 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Zaha Hadid | PASS Zaha Hadid | PASS Zaha Hadid | PASS Zaha Hadid | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Hideo Kojima 50 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Hideo Kojima | PASS Hideo Kojima | PASS Hideo Kojima | FAIL Masashi Kishimoto | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda 45 sitelinks | Medium | Field-famous specialists | PASS Lin-Manuel Miranda | PASS Lin-Manuel Miranda | PASS Lin-Manuel Miranda | PASS Lin-Manuel Miranda | FAIL Anthony Ramos | PASS Lin-Manuel Miranda | |
| Hard · Long-tail notables · 30 images | |||||||||
| Andreas Schleicher 8 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Tom Freston | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Monique Frize 8 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Leif Hallberg | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Patricia Scotland | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Ken Mogi 8 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Shunji Iwai | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Janet Biehl 8 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Kabir Stori 8 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Todd Stern 8 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Hillary Clinton | FAIL Hillary Clinton | FAIL Hillary Clinton | FAIL John Kerry | FAIL Hillary Clinton | FAIL Hillary Clinton | |
| Boris Kerner 8 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Sara Seager 30 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Susanne Bier | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Sheryl Sandberg | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Athene Donald 16 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Nalini Nadkarni 8 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Kiran Desai | FAIL Shonda Rhimes | FAIL Chanda Kochhar | FAIL Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | FAIL Unitiiti | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Manu Prakash 6 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Dev Patel | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Pardis Sabeti 18 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Rana el Kaliouby 18 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Shazia Ilmi | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Dina Katabi 14 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Marjorie Taylor Greene | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Sophie Turner | |
| Barbara Liskov 51 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Sophie Wilson 22 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Radia Perlman 32 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Leslie Lamport 43 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Paul McCartney | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Fatou Bensouda 36 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Joyce Musyoki | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Hina Jilani 25 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Kiran Bedi | FAIL Sheila Dikshit | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Zia Mohyeddin | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Jenny Erpenbeck 38 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Birke Karbaums | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Angela Merkel | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Sigrid Nunez 20 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Monique Canto-Sperber | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Yoko Ono | FAIL Jeanne Moreau | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Nnedi Okorafor 29 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | PASS Nnedi Okorafor | PASS Nnedi Okorafor | PASS Nnedi Okorafor | PASS Nnedi Okorafor | FAIL Nned Simon | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Teju Cole 19 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Unknown | FAIL Ta-Nehisi Coates | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Xiaolu Guo 19 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Mariana Pajón 31 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | PASS Mariana Pajón | PASS Mariana Pajón | FAIL Jennifer Valentina | FAIL Marlen Reusser | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Yulimar Rojas 43 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Sydney McLaughlin | FAIL Sha'Carri Richardson | FAIL Imani Lansiquot | FAIL Sha'Carri Richardson | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Clarisse Agbegnenou 37 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | PASS Clarisse Agbegnenou | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Teddy Riner | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Ireen Wüst 46 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL Miriam Weenink | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | |
| Lydia Ko 24 sitelinks | Hard | Long-tail notables | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL UNKNOWN | FAIL Kim In-kyung | FAIL Jiyai Shin | FAIL Kim Ha-jong | FAIL UNKNOWN | |