Dorothy Cotton
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Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy Cotton canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T131006 — 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: Dorothy Cotton Context triple: [Birmingham campaign, notableParticipant, Dorothy Cotton]
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A.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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B.
Dorothy Price Vanderpool
Dorothy Price Vanderpool was the second wife of self-improvement pioneer Dale Carnegie, known for supporting and helping manage his professional and literary legacy.
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C.
Laurey Williams
Laurey Williams is the spirited young farm girl who serves as the romantic heroine in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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D.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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E.
Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
- 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: Dorothy Cotton Target entity description: Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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A.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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B.
Dorothy Price Vanderpool
Dorothy Price Vanderpool was the second wife of self-improvement pioneer Dale Carnegie, known for supporting and helping manage his professional and literary legacy.
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C.
Laurey Williams
Laurey Williams is the spirited young farm girl who serves as the romantic heroine in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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D.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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E.
Ruth Rose
Ruth Rose was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1933 monster film "King Kong."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Dorothy Cotton Description of subject: Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.