Peola Johnson

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Peola Johnson is a pivotal character in the 1934 film "Imitation of Life," a light-skinned Black woman who struggles with racial identity and attempts to pass as white, highlighting themes of race, passing, and mother-daughter conflict.

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Label	Occurrences
Peola Johnson canonical	5

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20234336 — 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: Peola Johnson
Context triple: [Imitation of Life (1934 film), character, Peola Johnson]

A. Beulah Brown
Beulah Brown is the central housekeeper character from the mid-20th-century American radio and television comedy series "Beulah."
B. Otelia Cox
Otelia Cox is the wife of American actor Tony Cox, known for his roles in films such as "Bad Santa" and "Me, Myself & Irene."
C. Willa Brown
Willa Brown was a pioneering African American aviator, flight instructor, and civil rights advocate who became the first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot’s license and a commercial pilot’s license.
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.
E. Fannie N. Smith
Fannie N. Smith was the first wife of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington, with whom she shared the early years of his rise to prominence.
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: Peola Johnson
Target entity description: Peola Johnson is a pivotal character in the 1934 film "Imitation of Life," a light-skinned Black woman who struggles with racial identity and attempts to pass as white, highlighting themes of race, passing, and mother-daughter conflict.

A. Beulah Brown
Beulah Brown is the central housekeeper character from the mid-20th-century American radio and television comedy series "Beulah."
B. Otelia Cox
Otelia Cox is the wife of American actor Tony Cox, known for his roles in films such as "Bad Santa" and "Me, Myself & Irene."
C. Willa Brown
Willa Brown was a pioneering African American aviator, flight instructor, and civil rights advocate who became the first Black woman in the United States to earn both a pilot’s license and a commercial pilot’s license.
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.
E. Fannie N. Smith
Fannie N. Smith was the first wife of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington, with whom she shared the early years of his rise to prominence.
F. None of above. chosen