Edna Clarke
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Edna Clarke was the British wife of Kenyan independence leader and first president Jomo Kenyatta, with whom she had a son, Peter Muigai Kenyatta.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edna Clarke canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7453935 — 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: Edna Clarke Context triple: [Jomo Kenyatta, spouse, Edna Clarke]
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A.
Edna Clarke
Edna Clarke was a member of the Clarke family connected to Asia Booth Clarke, part of the extended Booth theatrical and literary lineage.
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B.
Edna Young
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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C.
Edna Thompson
Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
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D.
Zelma Atwood
Zelma Atwood is best known as the widow of legendary soul singer Otis Redding and the longtime steward of his musical legacy and estate.
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E.
Della Mae Jones
Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
- 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: Edna Clarke Target entity description: Edna Clarke was the British wife of Kenyan independence leader and first president Jomo Kenyatta, with whom she had a son, Peter Muigai Kenyatta.
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A.
Edna Clarke
Edna Clarke was a member of the Clarke family connected to Asia Booth Clarke, part of the extended Booth theatrical and literary lineage.
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B.
Edna Young
Edna Young is known as the mother of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young.
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C.
Edna Thompson
Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
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D.
Zelma Atwood
Zelma Atwood is best known as the widow of legendary soul singer Otis Redding and the longtime steward of his musical legacy and estate.
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E.
Della Mae Jones
Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| child | Peter Muigai Kenyatta ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| mother | Edna Clarke ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the British wife of Jomo Kenyatta
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being the mother of Peter Muigai Kenyatta ⓘ |
| residence |
Kenya
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Edna Clarke
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Jomo Kenyatta ⓘ |
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: Edna Clarke Description of subject: Edna Clarke was the British wife of Kenyan independence leader and first president Jomo Kenyatta, with whom she had a son, Peter Muigai Kenyatta.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.