Ruth Scroggins Taylor
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Ruth Scroggins Taylor was the woman who married Lady Bird Johnson’s father and helped raise the future First Lady of the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth Scroggins Taylor canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3600102 — 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: Ruth Scroggins Taylor Context triple: [Lady Bird Johnson, stepmother, Ruth Scroggins Taylor]
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A.
Patricia Reed Scott
Patricia Reed Scott was an American film and television executive and public official best known for leading New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting, where she helped expand the city’s production industry.
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B.
Mayme Hatcher Johnson
Mayme Hatcher Johnson was an American author and the widow of Harlem crime boss Bumpy Johnson, known for her memoir recounting their life together in mid-20th-century New York.
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C.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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D.
Dorothy Walker Bush
Dorothy Walker Bush was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the matriarch of the Bush political family and the mother of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
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E.
Ruth Fulton
Ruth Fulton was an influential American anthropologist best known under her married name, Ruth Benedict, for her pioneering work in cultural anthropology and the study of culture and personality.
- 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: Ruth Scroggins Taylor Target entity description: Ruth Scroggins Taylor was the woman who married Lady Bird Johnson’s father and helped raise the future First Lady of the United States.
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A.
Patricia Reed Scott
Patricia Reed Scott was an American film and television executive and public official best known for leading New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting, where she helped expand the city’s production industry.
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B.
Mayme Hatcher Johnson
Mayme Hatcher Johnson was an American author and the widow of Harlem crime boss Bumpy Johnson, known for her memoir recounting their life together in mid-20th-century New York.
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C.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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D.
Dorothy Walker Bush
Dorothy Walker Bush was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the matriarch of the Bush political family and the mother of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
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E.
Ruth Fulton
Ruth Fulton was an influential American anthropologist best known under her married name, Ruth Benedict, for her pioneering work in cultural anthropology and the study of culture and personality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
human ⓘ stepmother ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Johnson family
ⓘ
Lady Bird Johnson’s childhood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| familyName | Taylor ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Scroggins ⓘ |
| hasRole | stepmother of Lady Bird Johnson ⓘ |
| helpedRaise | Lady Bird Johnson ⓘ |
| notableFor | raising future First Lady Lady Bird Johnson ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
Lady Bird Johnson
ⓘ
Lyndon B. Johnson ⓘ |
| residence | Texas ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ruth Scroggins Taylor
ⓘ
Thomas Jefferson Taylor ⓘ |
| stepchild | Lady Bird Johnson ⓘ |
| stepmother | Ruth Scroggins Taylor ⓘ |
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: Ruth Scroggins Taylor Description of subject: Ruth Scroggins Taylor was the woman who married Lady Bird Johnson’s father and helped raise the future First Lady of the United States.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.