Amelia Gayle Gorgas
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Amelia Gayle Gorgas was an American librarian and hospital matron who served for decades at the University of Alabama, where the main library is named in her honor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amelia Gayle Gorgas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4136137 — 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: Amelia Gayle Gorgas Context triple: [William C. Gorgas, parent, Amelia Gayle Gorgas]
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Marie Doughty Gorgas
Marie Doughty Gorgas was the wife and partner of U.S. Army physician and public health pioneer William C. Gorgas, noted for her role in supporting his yellow fever and malaria control work during the construction of the Panama Canal.
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William C. Gorgas
William C. Gorgas was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army surgeon general best known for his pioneering work in controlling mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever and malaria, which enabled large-scale projects such as the construction of the Panama Canal.
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C.
Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas was a Confederate general and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War, instrumental in organizing and supplying the Confederate war effort.
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D.
Gorgas
Gorgas is a surname most notably associated with William C. Gorgas, the U.S. Army physician renowned for his work in controlling yellow fever and malaria during the construction of the Panama Canal.
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E.
Major Walter Reed
Major Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician renowned for leading the team that proved yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, revolutionizing public health and tropical medicine.
- 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: Amelia Gayle Gorgas Target entity description: Amelia Gayle Gorgas was an American librarian and hospital matron who served for decades at the University of Alabama, where the main library is named in her honor.
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A.
Marie Doughty Gorgas
Marie Doughty Gorgas was the wife and partner of U.S. Army physician and public health pioneer William C. Gorgas, noted for her role in supporting his yellow fever and malaria control work during the construction of the Panama Canal.
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B.
William C. Gorgas
William C. Gorgas was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army surgeon general best known for his pioneering work in controlling mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever and malaria, which enabled large-scale projects such as the construction of the Panama Canal.
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C.
Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas was a Confederate general and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War, instrumental in organizing and supplying the Confederate war effort.
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D.
Gorgas
Gorgas is a surname most notably associated with William C. Gorgas, the U.S. Army physician renowned for his work in controlling yellow fever and malaria during the construction of the Panama Canal.
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E.
Major Walter Reed
Major Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician renowned for leading the team that proved yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, revolutionizing public health and tropical medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
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hospital matron ⓘ human ⓘ librarian ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | United States (unspecified institutions) ⓘ |
| employer | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
health care administration
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library science ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasHonor | University of Alabama main library named for her ⓘ |
| hasRole |
university hospital matron
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university librarian ⓘ |
| honoredIn | campus landmarks at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Amelia Gayle Gorgas ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an important figure in the history of the University of Alabama
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longtime service at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Service as hospital matron at the University of Alabama
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Service as librarian at the University of Alabama ⓘ |
| occupation |
hospital matron
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librarian ⓘ |
| partOf | University of Alabama ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Alabama ⓘ |
| workLocation | Tuscaloosa, Alabama ⓘ |
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: Amelia Gayle Gorgas Description of subject: Amelia Gayle Gorgas was an American librarian and hospital matron who served for decades at the University of Alabama, where the main library is named in her honor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.