Lela Emogene Owens McMath
E143796
Lela Emogene Owens McMath was the mother of famed American actress and dancer Ginger Rogers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lela Emogene Owens McMath canonical | 4 |
| Lela Emogene Owens | 2 |
| Lela E. Owens McMath | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T464656 — 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: Lela Emogene Owens McMath Context triple: [Ginger Rogers, mother, Lela Emogene Owens McMath]
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A.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
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C.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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D.
Margaret Ann Dixon
Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
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E.
Bernice Layne Brown
Bernice Layne Brown was the mother of California governor Jerry Brown and a prominent figure in California political and civic life.
- 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: Lela Emogene Owens McMath Target entity description: Lela Emogene Owens McMath was the mother of famed American actress and dancer Ginger Rogers.
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A.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
Lucille Wilson
Lucille Wilson was the fourth wife of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, known for her long marriage to him and for preserving and promoting his legacy.
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C.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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D.
Margaret Ann Dixon
Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
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E.
Bernice Layne Brown
Bernice Layne Brown was the mother of California governor Jerry Brown and a prominent figure in California political and civic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lela E. Owens McMath
ⓘ
linked to:
Lela Emogene Owens McMath
Lela Rogers ⓘ |
| child | Ginger Rogers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName |
McMath
ⓘ
Owens ⓘ |
| givenName | Lela ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Emogene ⓘ |
| mother | Lela Emogene Owens McMath ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Ginger Rogers ⓘ |
| notableWork | mother of Ginger Rogers ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ scriptwriter ⓘ stage mother ⓘ talent agent ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Missouri ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Logan Rogers
ⓘ
William Eddins McMath ⓘ |
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: Lela Emogene Owens McMath Description of subject: Lela Emogene Owens McMath was the mother of famed American actress and dancer Ginger Rogers.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lela Emogene Owens McMath
linked to: Lela Emogene Owens McMath
linked to: Lela Emogene Owens McMath
linked to: Lela Emogene Owens McMath