Etta Terry Duryea
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Etta Terry Duryea was the first wife of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, known primarily for her tragic life and death amid the intense racial and public scrutiny surrounding their interracial marriage in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
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| Etta Terry Duryea canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10205642 — 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: Etta Terry Duryea Context triple: [Jack Johnson, spouse, Etta Terry Duryea]
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A.
Josephine Dunn
Josephine Dunn was an American film and stage actress of the late silent and early sound era, known for her roles in musical and dramatic pictures of the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
Hattie Shaw
Hattie Shaw is a skilled MI6 field agent and the sister of Deckard Shaw in the Fast & Furious franchise, prominently featured in "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw."
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C.
Vivien Harmon
Vivien Harmon is a central character in the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story, portrayed as a troubled wife and mother whose family moves into a haunted Los Angeles mansion.
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D.
ZaSu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts was an American actress known for her distinctive comedic persona and expressive features, who appeared in both silent films and talkies throughout a long Hollywood career.
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E.
Constance Bennett
Constance Bennett was a prominent American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s, known for her sophisticated screen presence and roles in early Hollywood talkies.
- 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: Etta Terry Duryea Target entity description: Etta Terry Duryea was the first wife of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, known primarily for her tragic life and death amid the intense racial and public scrutiny surrounding their interracial marriage in the early 20th century.
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A.
Josephine Dunn
Josephine Dunn was an American film and stage actress of the late silent and early sound era, known for her roles in musical and dramatic pictures of the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
Hattie Shaw
Hattie Shaw is a skilled MI6 field agent and the sister of Deckard Shaw in the Fast & Furious franchise, prominently featured in "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw."
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C.
Vivien Harmon
Vivien Harmon is a central character in the first season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story, portrayed as a troubled wife and mother whose family moves into a haunted Los Angeles mansion.
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D.
ZaSu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts was an American actress known for her distinctive comedic persona and expressive features, who appeared in both silent films and talkies throughout a long Hollywood career.
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E.
Constance Bennett
Constance Bennett was a prominent American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s, known for her sophisticated screen presence and roles in early Hollywood talkies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Etta Johnson ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
controversy surrounding interracial relationships
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racial tensions in the Jim Crow era United States ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
history of boxing
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history of interracial marriage laws and norms in the United States ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| lifeEvent |
death widely reported in the press
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died young ⓘ experienced intense racial and public scrutiny due to interracial marriage ⓘ |
| marriageType | interracial marriage ⓘ |
| name | Etta Terry Duryea ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
figure in the history of race and sports in the United States
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symbol of the personal costs of racism and public scandal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being first wife of Jack Johnson
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marriage to heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| spouseAchievement | world heavyweight boxing champion ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | professional boxer ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
press coverage
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public scrutiny ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Etta Terry Duryea Description of subject: Etta Terry Duryea was the first wife of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, known primarily for her tragic life and death amid the intense racial and public scrutiny surrounding their interracial marriage in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.