Emma Smith
E842161
Emma Smith was the first wife of Latter-day Saint founder Joseph Smith and an early leader in the church, known for her roles in assisting with scriptural projects and organizing the faith’s first hymnal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emma Smith canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10111559 — 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: Emma Smith Context triple: [Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, scribe, Emma Smith]
-
A.
Lucy Mack Smith
Lucy Mack Smith was an early Latter-day Saint matriarch and memoirist whose history of her family and son Joseph Smith is a key source on the origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
-
B.
Mary Fielding Smith
Mary Fielding Smith was a prominent early Latter-day Saint pioneer and leader, known for her faith, resilience, and role as the wife of Hyrum Smith and mother of church president Joseph F. Smith.
-
C.
Eliza R. Snow
Eliza R. Snow was a prominent 19th-century Latter-day Saint poet, leader, and women’s rights advocate known as one of the most influential female figures in early Mormon history.
-
D.
Lucy Smith (daughter of Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith)
Lucy Smith was a 19th-century American woman, daughter of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith and sister of Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
-
E.
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith was the 19th-century American religious leader who founded the Latter-day Saint movement and is regarded by its followers as a prophet.
- 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: Emma Smith Target entity description: Emma Smith was the first wife of Latter-day Saint founder Joseph Smith and an early leader in the church, known for her roles in assisting with scriptural projects and organizing the faith’s first hymnal.
-
A.
Lucy Mack Smith
Lucy Mack Smith was an early Latter-day Saint matriarch and memoirist whose history of her family and son Joseph Smith is a key source on the origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
-
B.
Mary Fielding Smith
Mary Fielding Smith was a prominent early Latter-day Saint pioneer and leader, known for her faith, resilience, and role as the wife of Hyrum Smith and mother of church president Joseph F. Smith.
-
C.
Eliza R. Snow
Eliza R. Snow was a prominent 19th-century Latter-day Saint poet, leader, and women’s rights advocate known as one of the most influential female figures in early Mormon history.
-
D.
Lucy Smith (daughter of Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith)
Lucy Smith was a 19th-century American woman, daughter of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith and sister of Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
-
E.
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith was the 19th-century American religious leader who founded the Latter-day Saint movement and is regarded by its followers as a prophet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latter Day Saint
ⓘ
human ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
hymn compilation
ⓘ
religion ⓘ scriptural translation assistance ⓘ women’s religious organization leadership ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Book of Mormon translation
ⓘ
Kirtland, Ohio ⓘ Nauvoo, Illinois ⓘ Relief Society formation ⓘ early Latter Day Saint hymnody ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Emma ⓘ |
| hasSpouseOrder | first wife of Joseph Smith ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marriedToReligiousFounder | Joseph Smith ⓘ |
| memberOf | Relief Society ⓘ |
| movement |
Latter Day Saint movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Latter-day Saint movement churches
|
| notableFor |
organizing the faith’s first hymnal
ⓘ
supporting Joseph Smith’s scriptural projects ⓘ |
| notableRole |
compiler of early Latter-day Saint hymns
ⓘ
early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement ⓘ first wife of Joseph Smith ⓘ participant in early Latter-day Saint migration and settlement ⓘ |
| notableWork |
assistance in the translation of the Book of Mormon
ⓘ
assistance in the translation of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible ⓘ compilation of the first Latter-day Saint hymnal ⓘ leadership in the Nauvoo Relief Society ⓘ preservation of early Latter-day Saint manuscripts ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
elect lady
ⓘ
president of the Relief Society ⓘ
linked to:
General Relief Society Presidency
|
| religion |
Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)
ⓘ
linked to:
Church of the Latter Day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (historical) ⓘ
linked to:
Church of the Latter Day Saints
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ⓘ
linked to:
Community of Christ
|
| roleInChurchMusic |
hymn compiler
ⓘ
hymnal organizer ⓘ |
| roleInScripturalProjects |
custodian of manuscripts
ⓘ
scribe and assistant ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Emma Smith
ⓘ
Joseph 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: Emma Smith Description of subject: Emma Smith was the first wife of Latter-day Saint founder Joseph Smith and an early leader in the church, known for her roles in assisting with scriptural projects and organizing the faith’s first hymnal.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.