Lola Shirley Graham
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Pan-Africanist
activist
biographer
civil rights activist
composer
essayist
human
novelist
playwright
Lola Shirley Graham, better known as Shirley Graham Du Bois, was an American playwright, composer, and activist who became a prominent Pan-Africanist and the second wife of W. E. B. Du Bois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lola Shirley Graham canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7181224 — 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: Lola Shirley Graham Context triple: [Shirley Graham Du Bois, fullName, Lola Shirley Graham]
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A.
Lilia Herriton
Lilia Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," whose impulsive choices and ill-fated romance in Italy drive the story's exploration of cultural conflict and personal freedom.
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B.
Olive Latham
"Olive Latham" is a lesser-known novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, the author of the famous revolutionary novel "The Gadfly."
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C.
Bonita Granville
Bonita Granville was an American film and television actress and producer best known for her early success as a child star, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "These Three" and her popular portrayal of Nancy Drew in the late 1930s film series.
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D.
Lillian Randolph
Lillian Randolph was an American actress and singer best known for her character roles in radio, film, and television from the 1930s through the 1950s, including her work on "The Great Gildersleeve" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
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E.
Mary Ellen Lancaster
Mary Ellen Lancaster was the mother of the infamous American bank robber John Dillinger.
- 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: Lola Shirley Graham Target entity description: Lola Shirley Graham, better known as Shirley Graham Du Bois, was an American playwright, composer, and activist who became a prominent Pan-Africanist and the second wife of W. E. B. Du Bois.
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A.
Lilia Herriton
Lilia Herriton is a central character in E.M. Forster's novel "Where Angels Fear to Tread," whose impulsive choices and ill-fated romance in Italy drive the story's exploration of cultural conflict and personal freedom.
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B.
Olive Latham
"Olive Latham" is a lesser-known novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, the author of the famous revolutionary novel "The Gadfly."
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C.
Bonita Granville
Bonita Granville was an American film and television actress and producer best known for her early success as a child star, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "These Three" and her popular portrayal of Nancy Drew in the late 1930s film series.
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D.
Lillian Randolph
Lillian Randolph was an American actress and singer best known for her character roles in radio, film, and television from the 1930s through the 1950s, including her work on "The Great Gildersleeve" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
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E.
Mary Ellen Lancaster
Mary Ellen Lancaster was the mother of the infamous American bank robber John Dillinger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pan-Africanist
ⓘ
activist ⓘ biographer ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ composer ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Shirley Graham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shirley Graham Du Bois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | breast cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1896-11-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1977-03-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oberlin College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African Americans
|
| fieldOfWork |
African American history
ⓘ
Pan-Africanism NERFINISHED ⓘ biographical writing ⓘ |
| fullName | Lola Shirley Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Civil rights movement
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pan-Africanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | second wife of W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dr. George Washington Carver, Scientist
NERFINISHED
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Du Bois: A Pictorial Biography NERFINISHED ⓘ His Day Is Marching On: A Biography of John Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, Founder of Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ Kwame Nkrumah: The Man and His Works NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of Phillis Wheatley NERFINISHED ⓘ There Once Was a Slave: The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass NERFINISHED ⓘ Zik: A Biography of Nnamdi Azikiwe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ composer ⓘ essayist ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Beijing, China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| residence |
Accra, Ghana
NERFINISHED
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Beijing, China NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | W. E. B. Du Bois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lola Shirley Graham Description of subject: Lola Shirley Graham, better known as Shirley Graham Du Bois, was an American playwright, composer, and activist who became a prominent Pan-Africanist and the second wife of W. E. B. Du Bois.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.