Zella Mae West
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Zella Mae West was the wife of longtime White House Chief Usher J. B. West, known primarily in historical records through her marriage to him.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zella Mae West canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7446067 — 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: Zella Mae West Context triple: [J. B. West, spouse, Zella Mae West]
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A.
Helen Forrest
Helen Forrest was a prominent American jazz and swing singer of the big band era, known for her work with leading orchestras and her smooth, emotive vocal style.
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B.
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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C.
Gladys Irene Owens
Gladys Irene Owens was the first wife of James Roosevelt II, the eldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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D.
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington was an acclaimed American jazz and blues singer known for her powerful voice and emotive interpretations, earning her the title "Queen of the Blues."
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E.
Thelma Evans
Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
- 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: Zella Mae West Target entity description: Zella Mae West was the wife of longtime White House Chief Usher J. B. West, known primarily in historical records through her marriage to him.
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A.
Helen Forrest
Helen Forrest was a prominent American jazz and swing singer of the big band era, known for her work with leading orchestras and her smooth, emotive vocal style.
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B.
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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C.
Gladys Irene Owens
Gladys Irene Owens was the first wife of James Roosevelt II, the eldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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D.
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington was an acclaimed American jazz and blues singer known for her powerful voice and emotive interpretations, earning her the title "Queen of the Blues."
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E.
Thelma Evans
Thelma Evans is a central character on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known as the smart, independent, and strong-willed daughter of the Evans family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
White House (through her husband’s position)
ⓘ
linked to:
First Lady of the United States
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasFamilyName | West ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Zella ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Mae ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | historical records about J. B. West and the White House staff ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to longtime White House Chief Usher J. B. West ⓘ |
| spouse | J. B. West ⓘ |
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: Zella Mae West Description of subject: Zella Mae West was the wife of longtime White House Chief Usher J. B. West, known primarily in historical records through her marriage to him.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.