Shirley Yarbrough
E391534
Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shirley Yarbrough canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3471387 — 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: Shirley Yarbrough Context triple: [Vernon E. Jordan Jr., spouse, Shirley Yarbrough]
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A.
Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin is an American politician who served as the first female mayor of Atlanta and the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major Southern city.
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B.
Yolanda Griffith
Yolanda Griffith is a retired American professional basketball player and Hall of Famer best known as a dominant WNBA center and Olympic gold medalist.
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C.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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D.
Susan Holbert McDaniel
Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
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E.
Magnolia Breeland
Magnolia Breeland is a character from the TV series "Hart of Dixie," known as Lemon Breeland's younger sister and a member of the prominent Breeland family in Bluebell, Alabama.
- 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: Shirley Yarbrough Target entity description: Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
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A.
Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin is an American politician who served as the first female mayor of Atlanta and the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major Southern city.
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B.
Yolanda Griffith
Yolanda Griffith is a retired American professional basketball player and Hall of Famer best known as a dominant WNBA center and Olympic gold medalist.
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C.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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D.
Susan Holbert McDaniel
Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
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E.
Magnolia Breeland
Magnolia Breeland is a character from the TV series "Hart of Dixie," known as Lemon Breeland's younger sister and a member of the prominent Breeland family in Bluebell, Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of civil rights leader Vernon E. Jordan Jr. ⓘ |
| spouse | Vernon E. Jordan Jr. ⓘ |
| spouseOfOccupation |
civil rights leader
ⓘ
presidential adviser ⓘ |
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: Shirley Yarbrough Description of subject: Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.