Ida Scott
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Ida Scott is a character in James Baldwin's novel "Another Country," which explores complex themes of race, sexuality, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ida Scott canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3281195 — 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 Scott Context triple: [Another Country, hasCharacter, Ida Scott]
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A.
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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B.
Idabel Thompkins
Idabel Thompkins is a spirited, tomboyish young girl in Truman Capote’s novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," known for her fierce independence and close friendship with the protagonist.
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C.
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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D.
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney was an African American woman whose migration from the Jim Crow South to the North is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s historical study of the Great Migration, *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
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E.
Mary Lee Johnston
Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
- 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 Scott Target entity description: Ida Scott is a character in James Baldwin's novel "Another Country," which explores complex themes of race, sexuality, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
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A.
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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B.
Idabel Thompkins
Idabel Thompkins is a spirited, tomboyish young girl in Truman Capote’s novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," known for her fierce independence and close friendship with the protagonist.
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C.
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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D.
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney was an African American woman whose migration from the Jim Crow South to the North is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s historical study of the Great Migration, *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
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E.
Mary Lee Johnston
Mary Lee Johnston is a character in the film "Precious," serving as the abusive and deeply troubled mother of the protagonist, Claireece "Precious" Jones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Another Country ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
artistic ambition
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identity ⓘ interracial relationships ⓘ race ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| createdBy | James Baldwin ⓘ |
| createdInYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Another Country (novel universe)
ⓘ
linked to:
Another Country
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFirstName | Ida ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Scott ⓘ |
| hasRomanticRelationshipWith | Rufus Scott ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Rufus Scott ⓘ |
| isCharacterInWorkBy | James Baldwin ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | singer ⓘ |
| partOfWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | mid-20th-century America ⓘ |
| workSetIn | New York City ⓘ |
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: Ida Scott Description of subject: Ida Scott is a character in James Baldwin's novel "Another Country," which explores complex themes of race, sexuality, and identity in mid-20th-century America.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.