Donham
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Donham is the married surname of Carolyn Bryant, the white woman whose accusations against Emmett Till in 1955 helped spark the modern American civil rights movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donham canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9420677 — 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: Donham Context triple: [Carolyn Bryant, familyName, Donham]
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A.
Farlington
Farlington is a small rural village in North Yorkshire, England, situated near the River Foss and known for its historic parish church and agricultural surroundings.
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B.
Longaville
Longaville is one of the three lords attending King Navarre in Shakespeare’s comedy *Love’s Labour’s Lost*, known for his vow of scholarly abstinence that is soon undermined by love.
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C.
Brandeston
Brandeston is a small rural village and civil parish located in the English county of Suffolk.
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D.
Rhawnhurst
Rhawnhurst is a residential neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for its post-World War II housing and suburban character.
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E.
Adamstown
Adamstown is the small, remote settlement that serves as the only town and administrative center of the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
- 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: Donham Target entity description: Donham is the married surname of Carolyn Bryant, the white woman whose accusations against Emmett Till in 1955 helped spark the modern American civil rights movement.
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A.
Farlington
Farlington is a small rural village in North Yorkshire, England, situated near the River Foss and known for its historic parish church and agricultural surroundings.
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B.
Longaville
Longaville is one of the three lords attending King Navarre in Shakespeare’s comedy *Love’s Labour’s Lost*, known for his vow of scholarly abstinence that is soon undermined by love.
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C.
Brandeston
Brandeston is a small rural village and civil parish located in the English county of Suffolk.
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D.
Rhawnhurst
Rhawnhurst is a residential neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for its post-World War II housing and suburban character.
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E.
Adamstown
Adamstown is the small, remote settlement that serves as the only town and administrative center of the Pitcairn Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights case
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| accusedEmmettTillOf | improper conduct in 1955 ⓘ |
| caseContributedTo | modern American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| countryOfIncident |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicity | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | Donham ⓘ |
| givenName | Carolyn ⓘ |
| hasAccuser |
Carolyn Bryant Donham
ⓘ
linked to:
Carolyn Bryant
|
| hasGenderAssociation | unisex ⓘ |
| hasVictim | Emmett Till ⓘ |
| helpedSpark | modern American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| maidenName | Bryant ⓘ |
| marriedSurnameOf | Carolyn Bryant ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Carolyn Bryant Donham
ⓘ
linked to:
Carolyn Bryant
|
| notableFor | role in the Emmett Till case ⓘ |
| occurredInYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| spouse | Roy Bryant ⓘ |
| surnameCategory | English-language surnames ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Carolyn Bryant Donham
ⓘ
linked to:
Carolyn Bryant
|
| victimOfAccusationsBy |
Carolyn Bryant Donham
ⓘ
linked to:
Carolyn Bryant
|
| yearOfIncident | 1955 ⓘ |
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: Donham Description of subject: Donham is the married surname of Carolyn Bryant, the white woman whose accusations against Emmett Till in 1955 helped spark the modern American civil rights movement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.