Thelma Coleman
E1025706
Thelma Coleman was the first wife of Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and the mother of several of his children, including Hazel Gordy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thelma Coleman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12373484 — 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: Thelma Coleman Context triple: [Hazel Gordy, mother, Thelma Coleman]
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A.
Thelma Edwards
Thelma Edwards was the first wife of famed British World War II flying ace and double amputee Sir Douglas Bader.
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B.
Thelma Harper
Thelma Harper is the sharp-tongued, no-nonsense matriarch at the center of the sitcom "Mama’s Family," known for her quick wit, temper, and old-fashioned values.
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C.
Thelma Riley
Thelma Riley is the first wife of English rock singer Ozzy Osbourne, with whom he had two children before their divorce in the early 1980s.
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D.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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E.
Beulah Brown
Beulah Brown is the central housekeeper character from the mid-20th-century American radio and television comedy series "Beulah."
- 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: Thelma Coleman Target entity description: Thelma Coleman was the first wife of Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and the mother of several of his children, including Hazel Gordy.
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A.
Thelma Edwards
Thelma Edwards was the first wife of famed British World War II flying ace and double amputee Sir Douglas Bader.
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B.
Thelma Harper
Thelma Harper is the sharp-tongued, no-nonsense matriarch at the center of the sitcom "Mama’s Family," known for her quick wit, temper, and old-fashioned values.
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C.
Thelma Riley
Thelma Riley is the first wife of English rock singer Ozzy Osbourne, with whom he had two children before their divorce in the early 1980s.
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D.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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E.
Beulah Brown
Beulah Brown is the central housekeeper character from the mid-20th-century American radio and television comedy series "Beulah."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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record label ⓘ |
| child |
Hazel Gordy
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Hazel Gordy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| founder |
Berry Gordy Jr.
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linked to:
Berry Gordy
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| notableFor |
being the first wife of Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr.
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founding Motown Records ⓘ |
| parent |
Berry Gordy Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Berry Gordy
Thelma Coleman ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Berry Gordy Jr.
ⓘ
linked to:
Berry Gordy
Thelma Coleman ⓘ |
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: Thelma Coleman Description of subject: Thelma Coleman was the first wife of Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. and the mother of several of his children, including Hazel Gordy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.