Florida Evans
E164743
Florida Evans is the strong, compassionate matriarch of a struggling African American family in the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known for her resilience, moral integrity, and devotion to her children.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Florida Evans canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408758 — 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: Florida Evans Context triple: [Good Times, mainCharacter, Florida Evans]
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A.
Everett Sloane
Everett Sloane was an American character actor of stage, film, radio, and television, best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles and roles in classic films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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B.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Charles McEvers Jr.
Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Everette
Everette is the given first name of E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
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E.
Elliott Frost
Elliott Frost was one of the children of renowned American poet Robert Frost.
- 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: Florida Evans Target entity description: Florida Evans is the strong, compassionate matriarch of a struggling African American family in the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known for her resilience, moral integrity, and devotion to her children.
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A.
Everett Sloane
Everett Sloane was an American character actor of stage, film, radio, and television, best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles and roles in classic films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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B.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Charles McEvers Jr.
Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Everette
Everette is the given first name of E. Howard Hunt, the American intelligence officer and author involved in the Watergate scandal.
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E.
Elliott Frost
Elliott Frost was one of the children of renowned American poet Robert Frost.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Good Times
ⓘ
Maude ⓘ |
| appearsInEpisodeCount | multiple seasons of Good Times ⓘ |
| catchphrase | Damn, damn, damn! ⓘ |
| child |
J.J. Evans
ⓘ
Michael Evans ⓘ Thelma Evans ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Eric Monte
ⓘ
Mike Evans ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Evans ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceMedium | television ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceSeries | Maude ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | Florida ⓘ |
| network | CBS ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
devotion to family
ⓘ
religious faith ⓘ resilience in poverty ⓘ strong moral values ⓘ |
| occupation |
domestic worker
ⓘ
housekeeper ⓘ |
| parentalRole | matriarch of the Evans family ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Esther Rolle ⓘ |
| relatedWork | spin-off from Maude ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
City of Chicago
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
housing project in Chicago ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| spouse | James Evans Sr. ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesDebutYear | 1974 ⓘ |
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: Florida Evans Description of subject: Florida Evans is the strong, compassionate matriarch of a struggling African American family in the 1970s sitcom "Good Times," known for her resilience, moral integrity, and devotion to her children.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Esther Rolle