Ida
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Ida is the given name of Ida B. Wells, the pioneering African American journalist, civil rights activist, and anti-lynching crusader.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ida canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2683801 — 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: Ida Context triple: [Ida B. Wells, givenName, Ida]
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A.
Ida
Ida is the Allied reporting name for the Tachikawa Ki-36, a Japanese World War II army cooperation and light attack aircraft.
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B.
Ida Farange
Ida Farange is a self-absorbed, neglectful mother in Henry James’s novel "What Maisie Knew," whose bitter divorce and irresponsible behavior shape her daughter Maisie’s troubled upbringing.
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C.
Ida Boy-Ed
Ida Boy-Ed was a German writer and literary patron known for her novels, essays, and support of contemporary authors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Ida Langdon
Ida Langdon was an American scholar and writer best known for her work on the life and writings of her uncle, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
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E.
Dolores
Dolores is a historic town in Guanajuato, Mexico, best known as the place where Miguel Hidalgo launched the Mexican War of Independence with the Grito de Dolores in 1810.
- 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: Ida Target entity description: Ida is the given name of Ida B. Wells, the pioneering African American journalist, civil rights activist, and anti-lynching crusader.
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A.
Ida
Ida is the Allied reporting name for the Tachikawa Ki-36, a Japanese World War II army cooperation and light attack aircraft.
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B.
Ida Farange
Ida Farange is a self-absorbed, neglectful mother in Henry James’s novel "What Maisie Knew," whose bitter divorce and irresponsible behavior shape her daughter Maisie’s troubled upbringing.
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C.
Ida Boy-Ed
Ida Boy-Ed was a German writer and literary patron known for her novels, essays, and support of contemporary authors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Ida Langdon
Ida Langdon was an American scholar and writer best known for her work on the life and writings of her uncle, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
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E.
Dolores
Dolores is a historic town in Guanajuato, Mexico, best known as the place where Miguel Hidalgo launched the Mexican War of Independence with the Grito de Dolores in 1810.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-lynching activist
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
ⓘ
linked to:
Ida B. Wells
|
| birthName |
Ida Bell Wells
ⓘ
linked to:
Ida B. Wells
|
| causeOfDeath | kidney failure ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Alpha Suffrage Club
ⓘ
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ⓘ
linked to:
NAACP
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1862-07-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1931-03-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| fieldOfWork |
anti-racism
ⓘ
civil rights ⓘ investigative journalism ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| givenName | Ida ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Ida B. Wells Papers
ⓘ
linked to:
Ida B. Wells
|
| influenced | later civil rights leaders in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Alpha Suffrage Club
ⓘ
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ⓘ
linked to:
NAACP
|
| movement |
anti-lynching movement
ⓘ
civil rights movement ⓘ
linked to:
American civil rights movement
women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
anti-lynching campaign
ⓘ
challenging segregation and discrimination ⓘ civil rights advocacy ⓘ investigative journalism on lynching in the United States ⓘ women's suffrage activism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crusade for Justice
ⓘ
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases ⓘ The Red Record ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
editor ⓘ journalist ⓘ publisher ⓘ suffragist ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Ferdinand L. Barnett ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Ida B. Wells Homes public housing project named in her honor ⓘ |
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: Ida Description of subject: Ida is the given name of Ida B. Wells, the pioneering African American journalist, civil rights activist, and anti-lynching crusader.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.