Selma Florence Smith
E506959
Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Selma Florence Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4909082 — 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: Selma Florence Smith Context triple: [Harold H. Burton, spouse, Selma Florence Smith]
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A.
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
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B.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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D.
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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E.
Evelyn Williams McKissick
Evelyn Williams McKissick was the wife of prominent civil rights leader Floyd McKissick and a supportive figure in his legal and activist career.
- 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: Selma Florence Smith Target entity description: Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A.
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American stage and film actress known for her distinguished Broadway career and frequent collaborations with her husband, actor Fredric March.
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B.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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D.
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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E.
Evelyn Williams McKissick
Evelyn Williams McKissick was the wife of prominent civil rights leader Floyd McKissick and a supportive figure in his legal and activist career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Harold H. Burton ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Harold H. Burton
ⓘ
Selma Florence Smith ⓘ |
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: Selma Florence Smith Description of subject: Selma Florence Smith was the wife of Harold H. Burton, an American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.