Eva Clayton
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Eva Clayton is an American politician who became the first African American woman to represent North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1992 to 2003.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eva Clayton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5972832 — 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: Eva Clayton Context triple: [Clayton, hasNotableBearer, Eva Clayton]
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A.
Eva Moore
Eva Moore was a prominent English stage and film actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her extensive theatrical career and character roles in early British cinema.
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B.
Evelyn Wade
Evelyn Wade was the wife of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, known primarily in relation to his personal and intellectual life.
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C.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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D.
Earlitha Kelly
Earlitha "Cookie" Johnson is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and the longtime wife of basketball legend Magic Johnson.
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E.
Linda Evans
Linda Evans is an American actress best known for her role as Krystle Carrington on the 1980s television soap opera "Dynasty."
- 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: Eva Clayton Target entity description: Eva Clayton is an American politician who became the first African American woman to represent North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1992 to 2003.
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A.
Eva Moore
Eva Moore was a prominent English stage and film actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her extensive theatrical career and character roles in early British cinema.
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B.
Evelyn Wade
Evelyn Wade was the wife of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, known primarily in relation to his personal and intellectual life.
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C.
Myrna Smith
Myrna Smith was an American soul and gospel singer best known as a member of the vocal group The Sweet Inspirations, who frequently recorded and toured with artists like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin.
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D.
Earlitha Kelly
Earlitha "Cookie" Johnson is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and the longtime wife of basketball legend Magic Johnson.
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E.
Linda Evans
Linda Evans is an American actress best known for her role as Krystle Carrington on the 1980s television soap opera "Dynasty."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryRepresented | United States of America ⓘ |
| endTime | 2003 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Clayton ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | politics ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Eva ⓘ |
| hasHonorificSuffix | U.S. Representative ⓘ |
| isA | African American woman in politics ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| name | Eva Clayton ⓘ |
| notableFor | first African American woman to represent North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
ⓘ
U.S. Representative from North Carolina ⓘ |
| residence | North Carolina ⓘ |
| startTime | 1992 ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | North Carolina ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Eva Clayton Description of subject: Eva Clayton is an American politician who became the first African American woman to represent North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1992 to 2003.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.