Ronnie Gilbert
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Ronnie Gilbert was an American folk singer and activist best known as the powerful contralto voice of the influential folk group The Weavers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ronnie Gilbert canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4588908 — 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: Ronnie Gilbert Context triple: [The Weavers, member, Ronnie Gilbert]
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A.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
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B.
Tracy Nelson
Tracy Nelson is an American actress and author best known for her roles in the television series "Square Pegs" and "Father Dowling Mysteries."
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C.
Ruby Elaine Johnston
Ruby Elaine Johnston was the first wife of acclaimed American actor Hal Holbrook, with whom he was married early in his career.
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D.
Jeannie Seely
Jeannie Seely is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member known for her 1966 hit "Don't Touch Me" and her long, influential career in Nashville.
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E.
Shelly West
Shelly West is an American country music singer best known for her 1980s hits and for being part of a popular mother-daughter duo with Dottie West.
- 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: Ronnie Gilbert Target entity description: Ronnie Gilbert was an American folk singer and activist best known as the powerful contralto voice of the influential folk group The Weavers.
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A.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
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B.
Tracy Nelson
Tracy Nelson is an American actress and author best known for her roles in the television series "Square Pegs" and "Father Dowling Mysteries."
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C.
Ruby Elaine Johnston
Ruby Elaine Johnston was the first wife of acclaimed American actor Hal Holbrook, with whom he was married early in his career.
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D.
Jeannie Seely
Jeannie Seely is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member known for her 1966 hit "Don't Touch Me" and her long, influential career in Nashville.
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E.
Shelly West
Shelly West is an American country music singer best known for her 1980s hits and for being part of a popular mother-daughter duo with Dottie West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American singer
ⓘ
activist ⓘ folk singer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Fred Hellerman
NERFINISHED
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Lee Hays NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weavers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Ruth Alice Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-09-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-06-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| genre | folk music ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth Alice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Weavers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
American folk music revival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
peace movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
political and social activism
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powerful contralto voice ⓘ role in American folk music revival ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Weavers recordings of "Goodnight, Irene"
NERFINISHED
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Weavers recordings of "On Top of Old Smoky" ⓘ performances with The Weavers ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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folk musician ⓘ playwright ⓘ political activist ⓘ psychologist ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Mill Valley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | left-wing politics ⓘ |
| residence | Mill Valley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Donna Korones
NERFINISHED
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Martin Weg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Ronnie Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceType | contralto ⓘ |
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: Ronnie Gilbert Description of subject: Ronnie Gilbert was an American folk singer and activist best known as the powerful contralto voice of the influential folk group The Weavers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.