Gertrude Wesley
E305092
Gertrude Wesley was the adoptive mother of Cynthia Wesley, one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gertrude Wesley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2858220 — 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: Gertrude Wesley Context triple: [Cynthia Wesley, adoptiveMother, Gertrude Wesley]
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A.
Gertrude Michael
Gertrude Michael was an American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her sophisticated and often vampish roles in Hollywood productions.
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B.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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C.
Cordelia Scaife May
Cordelia Scaife May was an American heiress and philanthropist known for her substantial Mellon family inheritance and for funding influential anti-immigration and population control organizations.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Eleanore Griffin
Eleanore Griffin was an American screenwriter best known for her Academy Award-winning work on socially conscious films during Hollywood’s studio era.
- 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: Gertrude Wesley Target entity description: Gertrude Wesley was the adoptive mother of Cynthia Wesley, one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
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A.
Gertrude Michael
Gertrude Michael was an American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her sophisticated and often vampish roles in Hollywood productions.
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B.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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C.
Cordelia Scaife May
Cordelia Scaife May was an American heiress and philanthropist known for her substantial Mellon family inheritance and for funding influential anti-immigration and population control organizations.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins, better known as Mary Surratt, was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Eleanore Griffin
Eleanore Griffin was an American screenwriter best known for her Academy Award-winning work on socially conscious films during Hollywood’s studio era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adoptive mother
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person ⓘ person ⓘ terrorist attack ⓘ |
| adoptiveMotherOf | Cynthia Wesley ⓘ |
| date | 1963 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| hasChild | Cynthia Wesley ⓘ |
| location |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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surface form:
Birmingham, Alabama
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| notableFor | being the adoptive mother of Cynthia Wesley ⓘ |
| residence |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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surface form:
Birmingham, Alabama
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| victimOf | 16th Street Baptist Church bombing ⓘ |
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: Gertrude Wesley Description of subject: Gertrude Wesley was the adoptive mother of Cynthia Wesley, one of the four African-American girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.