Sarah
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Sarah is the given name of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, a pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9923572 — 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: Sarah Context triple: [Sarah Breedlove, givenName, Sarah]
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Sarah
Sarah is a key matriarch in the Hebrew Bible, revered as the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
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Sarah
Sarah is a recurring character in the animated television series "Ed, Edd n Eddy," known as Ed's bossy, temperamental younger sister.
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Sarah
Sarah is the resilient and traumatized protagonist of the British horror film "The Descent," known for her harrowing journey through monster-infested caves.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given first name of the actress and comedian Patsy Kelly.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah P. Duke, the philanthropist and namesake of Duke University's Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
- 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: Sarah Target entity description: Sarah is the given name of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, a pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the early 20th century.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah Jane Negley Mellon, a prominent American socialite and philanthropist from the influential Mellon family.
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Sarah
Sarah is the birth name of Margaret Fuller, the 19th-century American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the Transcendentalist movement.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of the legendary American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, renowned for her rich vocal tone and improvisational skill.
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Sarah
Sarah is a person whose full name is Sarah Catherine McPherson Risher Getty.
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Sarah
Sarah is the given name of Sarah P. Duke, the philanthropist and namesake of Duke University's Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Madam C. J. Walker ⓘ |
| birthName | Sarah Breedlove ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hypertension-related complications ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1867-12-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1919-05-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| fieldOfWork |
cosmetics
ⓘ
hair care industry ⓘ |
| founded |
Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Madam C. J. Walker
|
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Madam ⓘ |
| industry |
cosmetics industry
ⓘ
hair care products ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | African American civil rights activism ⓘ |
| nameAfterMarriage |
Sarah Breedlove Walker
ⓘ
linked to:
Sarah Breedlove
|
| notableAchievement | created employment opportunities for thousands of African American women ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first self-made female millionaires in the United States
ⓘ
developing and marketing hair care products for African American women ⓘ philanthropy and activism in African American communities ⓘ |
| notableWork | Madam Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| philanthropyFocus |
African American charities
ⓘ
African American educational institutions ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Delta, Louisiana, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Irvington, New York, United States
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linked to:
Irvington, New York
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| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Denver, Colorado, United States
ⓘ
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States ⓘ New York, United States ⓘ St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialRole | role model for African American women entrepreneurs ⓘ |
| spouse | Charles Joseph Walker ⓘ |
| supported |
African American YMCA and YWCA organizations
ⓘ
linked to:
YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ⓘ
linked to:
NAACP
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| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Sarah Description of subject: Sarah is the given name of Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, a pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.