Juanita Hardy
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Juanita Hardy is an American former model and business professional best known as the first wife of actor and director Sidney Poitier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Juanita Hardy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9720219 — 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: Juanita Hardy Context triple: [Sidney Poitier, spouse, Juanita Hardy]
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A.
Juanita Vanoy
Juanita Vanoy is a former model and Chicago-based real estate professional best known as the ex-wife of basketball legend Michael Jordan.
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B.
Zonia Loomis
Zonia Loomis is a young, searching character in August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," representing innocence and the hope for family and belonging amid the upheavals of post-slavery America.
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C.
Mary Wills
Mary Wills was an American costume designer known for her work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films and for winning an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
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D.
Hilda Lessways
Hilda Lessways is a novel by Arnold Bennett that continues the story begun in "Clayhanger," focusing on the inner life and personal development of its strong-willed female protagonist in an English provincial town.
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E.
Jeanne Fisher
Jeanne Fisher is best known as the wife of John Ehrlichman, a key domestic affairs adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
- 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: Juanita Hardy Target entity description: Juanita Hardy is an American former model and business professional best known as the first wife of actor and director Sidney Poitier.
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A.
Juanita Vanoy
Juanita Vanoy is a former model and Chicago-based real estate professional best known as the ex-wife of basketball legend Michael Jordan.
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B.
Zonia Loomis
Zonia Loomis is a young, searching character in August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," representing innocence and the hope for family and belonging amid the upheavals of post-slavery America.
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C.
Mary Wills
Mary Wills was an American costume designer known for her work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films and for winning an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
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D.
Hilda Lessways
Hilda Lessways is a novel by Arnold Bennett that continues the story begun in "Clayhanger," focusing on the inner life and personal development of its strong-willed female protagonist in an English provincial town.
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E.
Jeanne Fisher
Jeanne Fisher is best known as the wife of John Ehrlichman, a key domestic affairs adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessperson
ⓘ
fashion model ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
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linked to:
Black Americans
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| hasChild |
Beverly Poitier
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linked to:
Beverly Poitier-Henderson
Gina Poitier ⓘ Pamela Poitier ⓘ Sherri Poitier ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1965 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Sidney Poitier ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Sidney Poitier ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
business professional
ⓘ
model ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Sidney Poitier ⓘ |
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: Juanita Hardy Description of subject: Juanita Hardy is an American former model and business professional best known as the first wife of actor and director Sidney Poitier.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.