Creola Katherine Coleman
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Creola Katherine Coleman, better known as Katherine Johnson, was an African American mathematician whose orbital mechanics calculations were critical to the success of early U.S. crewed spaceflights at NASA.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Creola Katherine Coleman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10038223 — 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: Creola Katherine Coleman Context triple: [Katherine Johnson, birthName, Creola Katherine Coleman]
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A.
Mildred Thompson
Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
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B.
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Annie Johnson is the birth name of Maya Angelou, the renowned American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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C.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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D.
Fannie N. Smith
Fannie N. Smith was the first wife of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington, with whom she shared the early years of his rise to prominence.
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E.
Charlotte Edith Cox
Charlotte Edith Cox, better known by her stage name Lottie Lyell, was a pioneering Australian silent film actress, screenwriter, editor, and filmmaker active in the early 20th century.
- 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: Creola Katherine Coleman Target entity description: Creola Katherine Coleman, better known as Katherine Johnson, was an African American mathematician whose orbital mechanics calculations were critical to the success of early U.S. crewed spaceflights at NASA.
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A.
Mildred Thompson
Mildred Thompson was the wife of civil rights leader James Forman, associated with the mid-20th-century American civil rights movement.
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B.
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Annie Johnson is the birth name of Maya Angelou, the renowned American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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C.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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D.
Fannie N. Smith
Fannie N. Smith was the first wife of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington, with whom she shared the early years of his rise to prominence.
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E.
Charlotte Edith Cox
Charlotte Edith Cox, better known by her stage name Lottie Lyell, was a pioneering Australian silent film actress, screenwriter, editor, and filmmaker active in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American
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NASA scientist ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor’s degree in French
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Bachelor’s degree in mathematics ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Katherine G. Johnson
NERFINISHED
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Katherine Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardedBy | Barack Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Congressional Gold Medal
NERFINISHED
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NASA Group Achievement Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Creola Katherine Coleman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hampton, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfAwardPresidentialMedalOfFreedom | 2015-11-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1918-08-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-02-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
West Virginia State College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West Virginia State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African Americans
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| familyName |
Coleman
NERFINISHED
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Johnson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautics
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mathematics ⓘ orbital mechanics ⓘ |
| givenName |
Creola
NERFINISHED
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Katherine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
Hidden Figures (book)
NERFINISHED
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Hidden Figures (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | West Area Computing unit at NACA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
breaking racial and gender barriers at NASA
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critical calculations for early U.S. crewed spaceflights ⓘ |
| notableWork |
calculations for Project Mercury missions
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trajectory analysis for Apollo 11 mission ⓘ verification of John Glenn’s orbital flight calculations ⓘ work on Space Shuttle program ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Newport News, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
James A. Johnson
NERFINISHED
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James Francis Goble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Langley Research Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Creola Katherine Coleman Description of subject: Creola Katherine Coleman, better known as Katherine Johnson, was an African American mathematician whose orbital mechanics calculations were critical to the success of early U.S. crewed spaceflights at NASA.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.