Edna Johnson
E931602
Edna Johnson was the wife of influential American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edna Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10241306 — 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 Johnson Context triple: [Fats Waller, spouse, Edna Johnson]
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A.
Edna Louise Johnson
Edna Louise Johnson was the wife of American lawyer and political activist Dudley Field Malone.
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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 Fry
Edna Fry is a fictional character from the British animated television series "Futurama," known as the grandmother of protagonist Philip J. Fry.
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D.
Edna Thompson
Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
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E.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
- 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 Johnson Target entity description: Edna Johnson was the wife of influential American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller.
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A.
Edna Louise Johnson
Edna Louise Johnson was the wife of American lawyer and political activist Dudley Field Malone.
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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 Fry
Edna Fry is a fictional character from the British animated television series "Futurama," known as the grandmother of protagonist Philip J. Fry.
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D.
Edna Thompson
Edna Thompson was the wife of legendary American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington.
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E.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genreAssociatedWithSpouse | jazz ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Edna Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| spouse |
Fats Waller
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseFullName | Thomas Wright Waller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | American ⓘ |
| spouseNotableWorkField | American jazz ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
composer
ⓘ
entertainer ⓘ organist ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Fats Waller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseStageName | Fats Waller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Johnson Description of subject: Edna Johnson was the wife of influential American jazz pianist and composer Fats Waller.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.