Josephine Baker
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Broadway performer
French Resistance member
World War II spy
cabaret performer
civil rights activist
dancer
entertainer
film actress
human
singer
Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, civil rights activist, and iconic performer of the Jazz Age who became one of the most celebrated figures of the Harlem Renaissance and international cabaret.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Josephine Baker canonical | 31 |
| Joséphine Baker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T419615 — 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: Josephine Baker Context triple: [Harlem Renaissance, notablePerson, Josephine Baker]
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A.
Frances Jones Dandridge
Frances Jones Dandridge was a Virginia colonial gentlewoman best known as the mother of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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B.
Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Lillian Rogers Parks
Lillian Rogers Parks was a longtime White House maid and seamstress who became known for her memoirs detailing life behind the scenes of multiple presidential administrations.
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D.
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Lil Hardin Armstrong was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and early collaborator who helped shape Louis Armstrong’s career during the 1920s and 1930s.
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E.
Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress renowned for her dazzling, technically precise performances in classic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
- 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: Josephine Baker Target entity description: Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, civil rights activist, and iconic performer of the Jazz Age who became one of the most celebrated figures of the Harlem Renaissance and international cabaret.
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A.
Frances Jones Dandridge
Frances Jones Dandridge was a Virginia colonial gentlewoman best known as the mother of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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B.
Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor best known for her Oscar-winning work on the blockbuster thriller "Jaws" and her influential role in New Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Lillian Rogers Parks
Lillian Rogers Parks was a longtime White House maid and seamstress who became known for her memoirs detailing life behind the scenes of multiple presidential administrations.
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D.
Lil Hardin Armstrong
Lil Hardin Armstrong was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and early collaborator who helped shape Louis Armstrong’s career during the 1920s and 1930s.
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E.
Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress renowned for her dazzling, technically precise performances in classic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway performer
ⓘ
French Resistance member ⓘ World War II spy ⓘ cabaret performer ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ dancer ⓘ entertainer ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| adoptedChildren | 12 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Black Venus
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Bronze Venus ⓘ Creole Goddess ⓘ La Baker ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Croix de Guerre
ⓘ
surface form:
Croix de guerre
Légion d'honneur ⓘ Rosette de la Résistance ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Panthéon, Paris
ⓘ
surface form:
Panthéon, Paris, France
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
France
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1906-06-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-04-12 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| fullName | Freda Josephine McDonald ⓘ |
| genre |
cabaret
ⓘ
jazz ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Free French Forces ⓘ |
| movement |
Harlem Renaissance
ⓘ
Roaring Twenties ⓘ
surface form:
Jazz Age
|
| notableAchievement |
first American-born woman to receive full French military honors at her funeral
ⓘ
first Black woman to become a world-famous entertainer ⓘ first Black woman to star in a major motion picture ⓘ |
| notableFor | banana skirt dance at the Folies Bergère ⓘ |
| notableWork |
La Folie du Jour
ⓘ
Princesse Tam-Tam ⓘ Revue Nègre ⓘ Zouzou ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 12 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ dancer ⓘ resistance fighter ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Paris
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, France
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, Dordogne, France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, France
|
| spokeAt |
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
ⓘ
surface form:
1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
|
| spouse |
Jean Lion
ⓘ
Jo Bouillon ⓘ Willie Baker ⓘ Willie Wells ⓘ |
| supportedCause |
anti-fascism
ⓘ
racial equality ⓘ |
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: Josephine Baker Description of subject: Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, civil rights activist, and iconic performer of the Jazz Age who became one of the most celebrated figures of the Harlem Renaissance and international cabaret.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Joséphine Baker
subject surface form:
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle