Alice Shepard
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Alice Shepard is the child of James E. Shepard, the influential African American educator and founder of what is now North Carolina Central University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alice Shepard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5851331 — 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: Alice Shepard Context triple: [James E. Shepard, parentOf, Alice Shepard]
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A.
Lois Smith
Lois Smith is an American character actress known for her nuanced performances in film, television, and theater over a career spanning several decades.
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B.
Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis was an American actress and television producer best known as the secret daughter of Hollywood stars Loretta Young and Clark Gable.
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C.
Ann Dowd
Ann Dowd is an American character actress known for her intense, often unsettling performances in film and television, including roles in projects like "The Handmaid's Tale" and numerous acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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D.
Nancy Richardson
Nancy Richardson is a film editor best known for her work on movies such as the biographical sports comedy-drama "Fighting with My Family."
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E.
Phyllis Thaxter
Phyllis Thaxter was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and for playing Martha Kent in the 1978 film "Superman."
- 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: Alice Shepard Target entity description: Alice Shepard is the child of James E. Shepard, the influential African American educator and founder of what is now North Carolina Central University.
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A.
Lois Smith
Lois Smith is an American character actress known for her nuanced performances in film, television, and theater over a career spanning several decades.
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B.
Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis was an American actress and television producer best known as the secret daughter of Hollywood stars Loretta Young and Clark Gable.
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C.
Ann Dowd
Ann Dowd is an American character actress known for her intense, often unsettling performances in film and television, including roles in projects like "The Handmaid's Tale" and numerous acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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D.
Nancy Richardson
Nancy Richardson is a film editor best known for her work on movies such as the biographical sports comedy-drama "Fighting with My Family."
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E.
Phyllis Thaxter
Phyllis Thaxter was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and for playing Martha Kent in the 1978 film "Superman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American educator
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African-American person ⓘ human ⓘ public university ⓘ |
| childOf | James E. Shepard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| ethnicGroup |
African American
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linked to:
Black Americans
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| founderOf | North Carolina Central University ⓘ |
| hasFather | James E. Shepard ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Durham, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableFor | founding North Carolina Central University ⓘ |
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: Alice Shepard Description of subject: Alice Shepard is the child of James E. Shepard, the influential African American educator and founder of what is now North Carolina Central University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.