Henrietta Williams Houston
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Henrietta Williams Houston was the wife of pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston and a figure connected to the early 20th-century African American professional and activist community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henrietta Williams Houston canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6472488 — 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: Henrietta Williams Houston Context triple: [Charles Hamilton Houston, spouse, Henrietta Williams Houston]
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A.
Ida Houston Nelson
Ida Houston Nelson was the wife of newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, associated with the early development of The Kansas City Star and civic life in Kansas City.
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B.
Martha Scott
Martha Scott was an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in classic Hollywood epics.
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C.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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D.
Henrietta Hill
Henrietta Hill is a relative of American astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope, likely a family member sharing her name.
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E.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
- 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: Henrietta Williams Houston Target entity description: Henrietta Williams Houston was the wife of pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston and a figure connected to the early 20th-century African American professional and activist community.
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A.
Ida Houston Nelson
Ida Houston Nelson was the wife of newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, associated with the early development of The Kansas City Star and civic life in Kansas City.
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B.
Martha Scott
Martha Scott was an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in classic Hollywood epics.
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C.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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D.
Henrietta Hill
Henrietta Hill is a relative of American astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope, likely a family member sharing her name.
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E.
Margaret Gates Wallace
Margaret Gates Wallace was the mother of Bess Truman, the First Lady of the United States during Harry S. Truman’s presidency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American woman
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human ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
African American civil rights activism
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African American civil rights lawyers ⓘ African American professional class in the United States ⓘ Charles Hamilton Houston ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Houston ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Henrietta ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Henrietta Williams Houston ⓘ |
| notableFor |
connection to early 20th-century African American activist community
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connection to early 20th-century African American professional community ⓘ |
| socialRole |
member of African American activist circles
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member of African American professional community ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles Hamilton Houston
ⓘ
Henrietta Williams Houston ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | legal strategist of the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | civil rights lawyer ⓘ |
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: Henrietta Williams Houston Description of subject: Henrietta Williams Houston was the wife of pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston and a figure connected to the early 20th-century African American professional and activist community.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.