Alma Johnson Powell
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Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alma Johnson Powell canonical | 8 |
| Alma Powell | 4 |
| Alma Vivian Johnson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1109180 — 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: Alma Johnson Powell Context triple: [Colin Powell, spouse, Alma Johnson Powell]
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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.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Lucille Campbell Green
Lucille Campbell Green was an educator and civil rights activist best known as the wife and partner of prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
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D.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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E.
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.
- 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: Alma Johnson Powell Target entity description: Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
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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.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Lucille Campbell Green
Lucille Campbell Green was an educator and civil rights activist best known as the wife and partner of prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph.
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D.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audiologist
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children's rights advocate ⓘ education advocate ⓘ human ⓘ literacy advocate ⓘ |
| birthName |
Alma Vivian Johnson
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linked to:
Alma Johnson Powell
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| chairperson | Alma Johnson Powell ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Powell ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
audiology
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child welfare ⓘ education ⓘ literacy promotion ⓘ youth development ⓘ |
| givenName | Alma ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Annmarie Powell
ⓘ
Linda Powell ⓘ Michael Powell ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Colin Powell
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linked to:
Colin Powell (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)
|
| knownFor |
children's and literacy initiatives
ⓘ
longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriedTo |
Colin Powell
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linked to:
Colin Powell (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)
|
| memberOf | America's Promise Alliance ⓘ |
| mother |
Alma Johnson Powell
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Alma Johnson Powell ⓘ Alma Johnson Powell ⓘ |
| name | Alma Johnson Powell ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of Colin Powell
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leadership in children's initiatives ⓘ leadership in literacy initiatives ⓘ public service ⓘ |
| notableRole |
advocate for at-risk youth
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advocate for improved public education ⓘ |
| occupation |
audiologist
ⓘ
education advocate ⓘ educator ⓘ nonprofit executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chair of America's Promise Alliance ⓘ |
| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alma Johnson Powell
ⓘ
Colin Powell ⓘ
linked to:
Colin Powell (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)
|
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: Alma Johnson Powell Description of subject: Alma Johnson Powell is an American audiologist and education advocate best known as the longtime wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and for her leadership in children’s and literacy initiatives.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Colin Powell (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)
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