Marguerite Annie Johnson
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Maya Angelou
autobiographer
civil rights activist
dancer
film director
human
memoirist
poet
professor
screenwriter
singer
stage actor
Marguerite Annie Johnson is the birth name of Maya Angelou, the renowned American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marguerite Annie Johnson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3864026 — 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: Marguerite Annie Johnson Context triple: [Maya Angelou, birthName, Marguerite Annie Johnson]
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A.
Mildred Thompson
Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
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B.
Margaret Ann Dixon
Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
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C.
Della Mae Givens
Della Mae Givens was the wife of pioneering African American architect Paul R. Williams, known for supporting him throughout his groundbreaking career in 20th-century American architecture.
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D.
Ida Jackson
Ida Jackson is a character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the struggles and moral complexities within a Harlem Pentecostal community.
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E.
Willa Brown
Willa Brown was a pioneering African American aviator, flight instructor, and civil rights advocate who became the first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot’s license and a commercial pilot’s license.
- 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: Marguerite Annie Johnson Target entity description: Marguerite Annie Johnson is the birth name of Maya Angelou, the renowned American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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A.
Mildred Thompson
Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
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B.
Margaret Ann Dixon
Margaret Ann Dixon is best known as the wife of acclaimed Canadian film director and producer Norman Jewison.
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C.
Della Mae Givens
Della Mae Givens was the wife of pioneering African American architect Paul R. Williams, known for supporting him throughout his groundbreaking career in 20th-century American architecture.
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D.
Ida Jackson
Ida Jackson is a character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the struggles and moral complexities within a Harlem Pentecostal community.
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E.
Willa Brown
Willa Brown was a pioneering African American aviator, flight instructor, and civil rights advocate who became the first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot’s license and a commercial pilot’s license.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Marguerite Annie Johnson Description of subject: Marguerite Annie Johnson is the birth name of Maya Angelou, the renowned American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.