Susan Holbert McDaniel
E268610
Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susan Holbert McDaniel canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2179048 — 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: Susan Holbert McDaniel Context triple: [Hattie McDaniel, parent, Susan Holbert McDaniel]
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A.
Mary C. McCall Jr.
Mary C. McCall Jr. was a pioneering American screenwriter and one of the first female presidents of the Screen Writers Guild, known for her work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Jane Wills Pitts
Jane Wills Pitts was the mother of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white suffragist and second wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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C.
Martha McMillan Roberts
Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
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D.
Ann Pamela Cunningham
Ann Pamela Cunningham was a 19th-century American preservationist best known for leading the effort to save George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and founding the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.
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E.
Ruth Cunningham
Ruth Cunningham was the wife of American colonial lawyer and patriot James Otis Jr., a prominent figure in the early resistance to British rule.
- 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: Susan Holbert McDaniel Target entity description: Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
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A.
Mary C. McCall Jr.
Mary C. McCall Jr. was a pioneering American screenwriter and one of the first female presidents of the Screen Writers Guild, known for her work in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Jane Wills Pitts
Jane Wills Pitts was the mother of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white suffragist and second wife of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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C.
Martha McMillan Roberts
Martha McMillan Roberts was a Farm Security Administration photographer known for documenting American life during the Great Depression era.
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D.
Ann Pamela Cunningham
Ann Pamela Cunningham was a 19th-century American preservationist best known for leading the effort to save George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and founding the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association.
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E.
Ruth Cunningham
Ruth Cunningham was the wife of American colonial lawyer and patriot James Otis Jr., a prominent figure in the early resistance to British rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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human ⓘ human ⓘ mother ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
African American
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African American ⓘ |
| familyName | McDaniel ⓘ |
| givenName | Susan ⓘ |
| hasChild | Hattie McDaniel ⓘ |
| hasMother | Susan Holbert McDaniel self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| name | Susan Holbert McDaniel self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Black performer to win an Academy Award
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being the mother of actress Hattie McDaniel ⓘ |
| relative | Hattie McDaniel ⓘ |
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: Susan Holbert McDaniel Description of subject: Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hattie McDaniel