Nina Gomer Du Bois
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Nina Gomer Du Bois was the first wife of civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and the mother of their two children.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yolande Du Bois | 3 |
| Nina Gomer Du Bois canonical | 2 |
| Nina Yolande Du Bois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1395924 — 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: Nina Gomer Du Bois Context triple: [W. E. B. Du Bois, spouse, Nina Gomer Du Bois]
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A.
Marguerite Erskine Walker
Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Voletta Wallace
Voletta Wallace is a Jamaican-born American educator and author best known as the mother of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. and for her work preserving 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.
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen was an influential American novelist and short story writer whose works, including "Passing" and "Quicksand," explored race, identity, and gender during the Harlem Renaissance.
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E.
Arline Wilkins
Arline Wilkins was the first wife of American singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers, married to him before his rise to major Hollywood fame.
- 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: Nina Gomer Du Bois Target entity description: Nina Gomer Du Bois was the first wife of civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and the mother of their two children.
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A.
Marguerite Erskine Walker
Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Voletta Wallace
Voletta Wallace is a Jamaican-born American educator and author best known as the mother of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. and for her work preserving 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.
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen was an influential American novelist and short story writer whose works, including "Passing" and "Quicksand," explored race, identity, and gender during the Harlem Renaissance.
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E.
Arline Wilkins
Arline Wilkins was the first wife of American singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers, married to him before his rise to major Hollywood fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American woman
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ |
| child |
Burghardt Du Bois
ⓘ
linked to:
W. E. B. Du Bois
Yolande Du Bois ⓘ
linked to:
Nina Gomer Du Bois
|
| citizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Gomer ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Nina ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (historical) ⓘ |
| name | Nina Gomer Du Bois ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of W. E. B. Du Bois
ⓘ
being the mother of the two children of W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| spouse |
W. E. B. Du Bois
ⓘ
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ⓘ
linked to:
W. E. B. Du Bois
|
| spouseOfOccupation |
civil rights leader
ⓘ
scholar ⓘ |
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: Nina Gomer Du Bois Description of subject: Nina Gomer Du Bois was the first wife of civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and the mother of their two children.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nina Gomer Du Bois
linked to: Nina Gomer Du Bois
linked to: Nina Gomer Du Bois