Ida Mae Richardson Cox
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Ida Mae Richardson Cox was the wife of pioneering American mathematician Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ida Mae Richardson Cox canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10987960 — 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: Ida Mae Richardson Cox Context triple: [Elbert Frank Cox, spouse, Ida Mae Richardson Cox]
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A.
Charlotte Edith Cox
Charlotte Edith Cox, better known by her stage name Lottie Lyell, was a pioneering Australian silent film actress, screenwriter, editor, and filmmaker active in the early 20th century.
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B.
Nellie W. Carter
Nellie W. Carter was the mother of American actor and entertainer Mickey Rooney.
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C.
Ida Jackson
Ida Jackson is a character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the struggles and moral complexities within a Harlem Pentecostal community.
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D.
Aurelia Nixon
Aurelia Nixon was the wife of civil rights leader E. D. Nixon and a supportive figure in his activism in Montgomery, Alabama.
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E.
Ettie R. Garner
Ettie R. Garner was the wife of John Nance Garner, the 32nd vice president of the United States, and served as his political partner and supporter throughout his long career in public office.
- 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: Ida Mae Richardson Cox Target entity description: Ida Mae Richardson Cox was the wife of pioneering American mathematician Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.
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A.
Charlotte Edith Cox
Charlotte Edith Cox, better known by her stage name Lottie Lyell, was a pioneering Australian silent film actress, screenwriter, editor, and filmmaker active in the early 20th century.
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B.
Nellie W. Carter
Nellie W. Carter was the mother of American actor and entertainer Mickey Rooney.
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C.
Ida Jackson
Ida Jackson is a character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the struggles and moral complexities within a Harlem Pentecostal community.
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D.
Aurelia Nixon
Aurelia Nixon was the wife of civil rights leader E. D. Nixon and a supportive figure in his activism in Montgomery, Alabama.
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E.
Ettie R. Garner
Ettie R. Garner was the wife of John Nance Garner, the 32nd vice president of the United States, and served as his political partner and supporter throughout his long career in public office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
African American ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName |
Cox
ⓘ
Richardson ⓘ |
| givenName | Ida Mae ⓘ |
| name | Ida Mae Richardson Cox ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Black person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
ⓘ
being the wife of mathematician Elbert Frank Cox ⓘ |
| occupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| relative | Elbert Frank Cox ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elbert Frank Cox
ⓘ
Ida Mae Richardson Cox ⓘ |
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: Ida Mae Richardson Cox Description of subject: Ida Mae Richardson Cox was the wife of pioneering American mathematician Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.