Martha McMillan Roberts
E183792
Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martha McMillan Roberts canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T419485 — 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: Martha McMillan Roberts Context triple: [Farm Security Administration photographers, hasPart, Martha McMillan Roberts]
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A.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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B.
Mary Spencer Hull
Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
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C.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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D.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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E.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
- 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: Martha McMillan Roberts Target entity description: Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
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A.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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B.
Mary Spencer Hull
Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
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C.
Eunice Scott
Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
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D.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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E.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Farm Security Administration photographer
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photographer ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer |
FSA
ⓘ
Farm Security Administration ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | documentary photography ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
economic hardship during the Great Depression
ⓘ
everyday life of Americans ⓘ |
| genre | social documentary photography ⓘ |
| hasPhotoCollectionIn |
United States federal archives
ⓘ
linked to:
National Archives and Records Administration
|
| hasRole |
documentary photographer
ⓘ
government photographer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
American families
ⓘ
farm workers in the United States ⓘ poverty in the United States ⓘ rural life in the United States ⓘ |
| movement | New Deal era documentary photography ⓘ |
| notableFor | documenting American life during the Great Depression ⓘ |
| occupation | photographer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Farm Security Administration photography project
ⓘ
linked to:
Farm Security Administration photographs
New Deal photography programs ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
Great Depression era
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Depression
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Martha McMillan Roberts Description of subject: Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.