Sarah Breedlove
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Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur and philanthropist widely recognized as one of the first self-made female millionaires in the United States through her pioneering Black hair-care business.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Breedlove canonical | 6 |
| Sarah Breedlove Walker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657760 — 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.
Target entity: Sarah Breedlove Context triple: [Madam C. J. Walker, birthName, Sarah Breedlove]
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Voletta Wallace
Voletta Wallace is a Jamaican-born American educator and author best known as the mother of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. and for her work preserving his legacy.
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B.
Nina Gomer Du Bois
Nina Gomer Du Bois was the first wife of civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and the mother of their two children.
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C.
Marguerite Erskine Walker
Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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E.
Arline Wilkins
Arline Wilkins was the first wife of American singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers, married to him before his rise to major Hollywood fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sarah Breedlove Target entity description: Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur and philanthropist widely recognized as one of the first self-made female millionaires in the United States through her pioneering Black hair-care business.
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A.
Voletta Wallace
Voletta Wallace is a Jamaican-born American educator and author best known as the mother of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. and for her work preserving his legacy.
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B.
Nina Gomer Du Bois
Nina Gomer Du Bois was the first wife of civil rights leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois and the mother of their two children.
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C.
Marguerite Erskine Walker
Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Leola Brown
Leola Brown was the wife of Oliver Brown, the named plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
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E.
Arline Wilkins
Arline Wilkins was the first wife of American singer and cowboy actor Roy Rogers, married to him before his rise to major Hollywood fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American businessperson
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businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ hair-care industry pioneer ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Madam C. J. Walker
ⓘ
Madam C. J. Walker ⓘ
surface form:
Madame C. J. Walker
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| birthName | Sarah Breedlove self-link ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
hypertension
ⓘ
kidney failure ⓘ |
| child | A'Lelia Walker ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1867-12-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1919-05-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Breedlove ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African American beauty culture
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cosmetics industry ⓘ hair care ⓘ |
| founded |
Madam C. J. Walker
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surface form:
Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company
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| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | formerly enslaved parents ⓘ |
| hasName | Sarah Breedlove self-link ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Madam ⓘ |
| influenced |
African American beauty industry
ⓘ
Black women entrepreneurs in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first self-made female millionaires in the United States
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developing and marketing hair-care products for Black women ⓘ founding a successful African American–owned cosmetics company ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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cosmetics manufacturer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
African American educational institutions
ⓘ
anti-lynching campaigns ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Delta, Louisiana, United States
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surface form:
Delta, Louisiana
Madison Parish, Louisiana ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Irvington, New York
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New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York, United States of America
|
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Denver, Colorado
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Harlem ⓘ
surface form:
Harlem, New York City
Indianapolis ⓘ
surface form:
Indianapolis, Indiana
Irvington, New York ⓘ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis, Missouri
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialRole |
civil rights advocate
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patron of the arts ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles Joseph Walker
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John Davis ⓘ Moses McWilliams ⓘ |
| supportedOrganization |
Black Protestant churches
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surface form:
African American churches
NAACP ⓘ YMCA ⓘ |
| wasBornTo |
Minerva Breedlove
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Owen Breedlove ⓘ |
| wasFirst | one of the first self-made female millionaires in the United States ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Harlem
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surface form:
Harlem, New York City
Indianapolis ⓘ
surface form:
Indianapolis, Indiana
|
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Sarah Breedlove Description of subject: Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur and philanthropist widely recognized as one of the first self-made female millionaires in the United States through her pioneering Black hair-care business.
Referenced by (7)
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