Alpha Smith
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Alpha Smith was the first wife of legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong, married to him in the early years of his career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alpha Smith canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T169230 — 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: Alpha Smith Context triple: [Louis Armstrong, spouse, Alpha Smith]
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A.
Andrew
Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
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B.
Andrew
Andrew is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line.
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C.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
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D.
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones was the English mariner who captained the Mayflower on its historic 1620 voyage carrying the Pilgrims to New England.
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E.
Adam Schroeder
Adam Schroeder is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood features, including Tim Burton’s gothic horror film "Sleepy Hollow" (1999).
- 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: Alpha Smith Target entity description: Alpha Smith was the first wife of legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong, married to him in the early years of his career.
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A.
Andrew
Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
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B.
Andrew
Andrew is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line.
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C.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
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D.
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones was the English mariner who captained the Mayflower on its historic 1620 voyage carrying the Pilgrims to New England.
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E.
Adam Schroeder
Adam Schroeder is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood features, including Tim Burton’s gothic horror film "Sleepy Hollow" (1999).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasSpouseOrder |
first wife of Louis Armstrong
ⓘ
first wife: Alpha Smith ⓘ |
| marriedToDuring | early years of Louis Armstrong's career ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Louis Armstrong ⓘ |
| occupation | spouse of a musician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alpha Smith
ⓘ
Louis Armstrong ⓘ |
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: Alpha Smith Description of subject: Alpha Smith was the first wife of legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong, married to him in the early years of his career.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Alpha Smith