Sister Douglass
E343597
Sister Douglass is a supporting character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the devout, tradition-bound members of a Harlem Pentecostal congregation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sister Douglass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3288460 — 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: Sister Douglass Context triple: [The Amen Corner, hasCharacter, Sister Douglass]
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A.
Harriet Hilliard
Harriet Hilliard was an American singer and actress best known as the wife and performing partner of Ozzie Nelson and for her long-running role on the radio and television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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B.
Anna Murray Douglass
Anna Murray Douglass was an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass, who played a crucial role in his escape from slavery and supported his activism throughout their marriage.
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C.
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs was a formerly enslaved African American woman whose 1861 autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" became a landmark work in abolitionist literature and early Black feminist writing.
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D.
Anna Moore
Anna Moore is the virtuous, long-suffering heroine of the silent film "Way Down East," whose trials and resilience drive the story’s emotional core.
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E.
Poussey Washington
Poussey Washington is a beloved, sharp-witted inmate in the television series "Orange Is the New Black," known for her moral integrity, tragic storyline, and close friendship with Taystee.
- 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: Sister Douglass Target entity description: Sister Douglass is a supporting character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the devout, tradition-bound members of a Harlem Pentecostal congregation.
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A.
Harriet Hilliard
Harriet Hilliard was an American singer and actress best known as the wife and performing partner of Ozzie Nelson and for her long-running role on the radio and television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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B.
Anna Murray Douglass
Anna Murray Douglass was an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass, who played a crucial role in his escape from slavery and supported his activism throughout their marriage.
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C.
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs was a formerly enslaved African American woman whose 1861 autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" became a landmark work in abolitionist literature and early Black feminist writing.
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D.
Anna Moore
Anna Moore is the virtuous, long-suffering heroine of the silent film "Way Down East," whose trials and resilience drive the story’s emotional core.
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E.
Poussey Washington
Poussey Washington is a beloved, sharp-witted inmate in the television series "Orange Is the New Black," known for her moral integrity, tragic storyline, and close friendship with Taystee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | play ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
community judgment
ⓘ
religious faith ⓘ tradition vs. change ⓘ |
| characterInWork | The Amen Corner ⓘ |
| characterRole | devout church member ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
devout
ⓘ
tradition-bound ⓘ |
| countryOfWorkOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | James Baldwin ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
The Amen Corner fictional universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Amen Corner
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriodOfWork | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mediumOfWork | theatre ⓘ |
| memberOf | Harlem Pentecostal congregation ⓘ |
| partOf | congregation in The Amen Corner ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Pentecostalism ⓘ |
| represents | traditional religious values ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Harlem ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| workAuthorOccupation |
playwright
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| workPublicationDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
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: Sister Douglass Description of subject: Sister Douglass is a supporting character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the devout, tradition-bound members of a Harlem Pentecostal congregation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.