Della Mae Givens
E243701
Della Mae Givens was the wife of pioneering African American architect Paul R. Williams, known for supporting him throughout his groundbreaking career in 20th-century American architecture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Della Mae Givens canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2039423 — 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: Della Mae Givens Context triple: [Paul R. Williams, spouse, Della Mae Givens]
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A.
Della Mae Jones
Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
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B.
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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C.
Kate Lanier
Kate Lanier is an American screenwriter known for writing films such as "Set It Off," "What's Love Got to Do with It," and "Glitter."
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D.
Deloris Jordan
Deloris Jordan is the mother of basketball legend Michael Jordan, known for her influential role in his upbringing and for her work as an author and philanthropist.
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E.
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney was an African American woman whose migration from the Jim Crow South to the North is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s historical study of the Great Migration, *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
- 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: Della Mae Givens Target entity description: Della Mae Givens was the wife of pioneering African American architect Paul R. Williams, known for supporting him throughout his groundbreaking career in 20th-century American architecture.
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A.
Della Mae Jones
Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
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B.
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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C.
Kate Lanier
Kate Lanier is an American screenwriter known for writing films such as "Set It Off," "What's Love Got to Do with It," and "Glitter."
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D.
Deloris Jordan
Deloris Jordan is the mother of basketball legend Michael Jordan, known for her influential role in his upbringing and for her work as an author and philanthropist.
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E.
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney was an African American woman whose migration from the Jim Crow South to the North is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s historical study of the Great Migration, *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| ethnicity |
African American
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African American ⓘ |
| name | Della Mae Givens self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of architect Paul R. Williams
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supporting Paul R. Williams throughout his architectural career ⓘ |
| spouse |
Della Mae Givens
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Paul R. Williams ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 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: Della Mae Givens Description of subject: Della Mae Givens was the wife of pioneering African American architect Paul R. Williams, known for supporting him throughout his groundbreaking career in 20th-century American architecture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Paul R. Williams