Kate Barker
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Kate Barker, better known as Ma Barker, was an American criminal figure infamous for leading the Barker–Karpis gang during the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kate Barker canonical | 1 |
| Ma Kate Barker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5066458 — 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: Kate Barker Context triple: [Ma Barker, alternateName, Kate Barker]
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A.
Sophie Hunter
Sophie Hunter is a British theatre and opera director, playwright, and former actress known for her avant-garde stage work and marriage to actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
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B.
Jennifer Bourke
Jennifer Bourke is known as the spouse of actor Robert Shaw.
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C.
Kate Lynch
Kate Lynch is a Canadian actress best known for her role in the 1979 comedy film "Meatballs."
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D.
Katherine Wilkinson
Katherine Wilkinson is a climate strategist, author, and speaker known for her work on solutions-focused climate communication and leadership, including co-editing the influential book "All We Can Save."
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E.
Rebecca Yeldham
Rebecca Yeldham is a film producer known for her work on acclaimed independent and international films, including the adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
- 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: Kate Barker Target entity description: Kate Barker, better known as Ma Barker, was an American criminal figure infamous for leading the Barker–Karpis gang during the early 20th century.
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A.
Sophie Hunter
Sophie Hunter is a British theatre and opera director, playwright, and former actress known for her avant-garde stage work and marriage to actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
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B.
Jennifer Bourke
Jennifer Bourke is known as the spouse of actor Robert Shaw.
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C.
Kate Lynch
Kate Lynch is a Canadian actress best known for her role in the 1979 comedy film "Meatballs."
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D.
Katherine Wilkinson
Katherine Wilkinson is a climate strategist, author, and speaker known for her work on solutions-focused climate communication and leadership, including co-editing the influential book "All We Can Save."
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E.
Rebecca Yeldham
Rebecca Yeldham is a film producer known for her work on acclaimed independent and international films, including the adaptation of "The Kite Runner."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal
ⓘ
gang leader ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kate Barker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ma Barker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alvin Karpis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Federal Bureau of Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Arizona Donnie Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Williams Timberhill Cemetery, Welch, Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1873-10-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1935-01-16 ⓘ |
| era | Public Enemy era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| givenName | Arizona Donnie Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Kate Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Arthur "Doc" Barker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fred Barker NERFINISHED ⓘ Herman Barker NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloyd Barker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReputation | ruthless criminal matriarch ⓘ |
| imageDepicts | Ma Barker with her sons (historical photographs) ⓘ |
| influencedBy | rural poverty in late 19th-century America ⓘ |
| legalStatus | fugitive at time of death ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed by law enforcement ⓘ |
| memberOf | Barker–Karpis gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | FBI shootout at Ocklawaha, Florida in 1935 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bank robbery
ⓘ
involvement in organized crime in the United States ⓘ kidnapping ⓘ leadership of the Barker–Karpis gang ⓘ |
| occupation |
criminal
ⓘ
gang leader ⓘ |
| partOf | American organized crime history ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ash Grove, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ocklawaha, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| residence |
Florida, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | George Barker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
J. Edgar Hoover statements on Ma Barker
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books about the Barker–Karpis gang ⓘ films depicting Ma Barker ⓘ |
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: Kate Barker Description of subject: Kate Barker, better known as Ma Barker, was an American criminal figure infamous for leading the Barker–Karpis gang during the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ma Kate Barker