Florence Owens Thompson
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Florence Owens Thompson was a destitute farmworker and mother whose image in Dorothea Lange’s iconic 1936 photograph “Migrant Mother” became a powerful symbol of the hardships of the Great Depression in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Florence Owens Thompson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11513412 — 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: Florence Owens Thompson Context triple: [Migrant Mother, depicts, Florence Owens Thompson]
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A.
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer best known for her powerful images of the Great Depression that humanized the plight of displaced and impoverished people.
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Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering American photojournalist renowned for her industrial photography, World War II coverage, and iconic images published in Life magazine.
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C.
Russell Lee
Russell Lee was an American photographer best known for his extensive documentary work for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, capturing vivid images of rural and small-town life.
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D.
Dorothy Miner
Dorothy Miner was a prominent American art historian and curator known for her influential work with medieval manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
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E.
Leslie Black
Leslie Black was the first wife of acclaimed American film director John Huston, to whom he was briefly married in the 1930s.
- 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: Florence Owens Thompson Target entity description: Florence Owens Thompson was a destitute farmworker and mother whose image in Dorothea Lange’s iconic 1936 photograph “Migrant Mother” became a powerful symbol of the hardships of the Great Depression in the United States.
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A.
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer best known for her powerful images of the Great Depression that humanized the plight of displaced and impoverished people.
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B.
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering American photojournalist renowned for her industrial photography, World War II coverage, and iconic images published in Life magazine.
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C.
Russell Lee
Russell Lee was an American photographer best known for his extensive documentary work for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, capturing vivid images of rural and small-town life.
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D.
Dorothy Miner
Dorothy Miner was a prominent American art historian and curator known for her influential work with medieval manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
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E.
Leslie Black
Leslie Black was the first wife of acclaimed American film director John Huston, to whom he was briefly married in the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Florence Owens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Migrant Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dust Bowl migration
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Farm Security Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Florence Leona Christie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lakewood Memorial Park, Hughson, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1903-09-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1983-09-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfPhotograph | 1936-03 ⓘ |
| depictedBy | Dorothea Lange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Migrant Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicCondition | poverty ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Cherokee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Native American ⓘ |
| familyBackground | Cherokee sharecropper family ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | documentary photography ⓘ |
| hasImage | Migrant Mother photograph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | public perception of Great Depression hardship ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedDuring | 20th century ⓘ |
| name | Florence Owens Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the subject of Dorothea Lange’s 1936 photograph "Migrant Mother" ⓘ |
| notableWork | subject of the photograph "Migrant Mother" ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 10 ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmworker
ⓘ
migrant farm laborer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Indian Territory
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near Tahlequah, Oklahoma ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Watsonville, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfPhotograph | Nipomo, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Modesto, California NERFINISHED ⓘ Nipomo, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | symbol of Great Depression hardship in the United States ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
destitute farmworker
ⓘ
migrant worker ⓘ |
| spouse | Clell Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
documentary film "Migrant Mother: The Story of Florence Owens Thompson"
NERFINISHED
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numerous articles about "Migrant Mother" ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Florence Owens Thompson Description of subject: Florence Owens Thompson was a destitute farmworker and mother whose image in Dorothea Lange’s iconic 1936 photograph “Migrant Mother” became a powerful symbol of the hardships of the Great Depression in the United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.