James Lloyd Crawford
E241230
James Lloyd Crawford was the second husband of pioneering African American actress and Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Lloyd Crawford canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2179043 — 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: James Lloyd Crawford Context triple: [Hattie McDaniel, spouse, James Lloyd Crawford]
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A.
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Robert Paul Smith
Robert Paul Smith was an American author and playwright best known for his humorous novels and plays, including the work that inspired the romantic comedy "The Tender Trap."
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D.
Keith Foulke
Keith Foulke is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the Boston Red Sox closer who played a pivotal role in their 2004 World Series championship run.
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E.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
- 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: James Lloyd Crawford Target entity description: James Lloyd Crawford was the second husband of pioneering African American actress and Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel.
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A.
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Robert Paul Smith
Robert Paul Smith was an American author and playwright best known for his humorous novels and plays, including the work that inspired the romantic comedy "The Tender Trap."
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D.
Keith Foulke
Keith Foulke is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the Boston Red Sox closer who played a pivotal role in their 2004 World Series championship run.
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E.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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person ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| marriageOrderRelativeToHattieMcDaniel | second husband ⓘ |
| notableFor | first African American to win an Academy Award ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| spouse |
Hattie McDaniel
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James Lloyd Crawford self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: James Lloyd Crawford Description of subject: James Lloyd Crawford was the second husband of pioneering African American actress and Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hattie McDaniel