Odessa Grady Clay
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Odessa Grady Clay was the mother of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and played a significant role in his early life and upbringing.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Odessa Grady Clay canonical | 3 |
| Odessa Lee Grady | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2594496 — 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: Odessa Grady Clay Context triple: [Muhammad Ali, parent, Odessa Grady Clay]
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A.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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B.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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C.
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
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D.
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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E.
Louvenia Breedlove
Louvenia Breedlove was the sister of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
- 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: Odessa Grady Clay Target entity description: Odessa Grady Clay was the mother of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and played a significant role in his early life and upbringing.
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A.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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B.
Josephine Stovall
Josephine Stovall was the wife of James V. Forrestal, the first United States Secretary of Defense.
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C.
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
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D.
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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E.
Louvenia Breedlove
Louvenia Breedlove was the sister of pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Odessa Grady Clay Description of subject: Odessa Grady Clay was the mother of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and played a significant role in his early life and upbringing.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Odessa Grady Clay