Emily Davies
E238081
British suffragist
college of the University of Cambridge
educational reformer
feminist
human
women's rights organization
Emily Davies was a pioneering British feminist and educational reformer who played a key role in opening university education to women in the 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emily Davies canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1346168 — 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: Emily Davies Context triple: [Girton College, Cambridge, foundedBy, Emily Davies]
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A.
Elizabeth Fisher
Elizabeth Fisher was the wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins, known primarily through her connection to early colonial American history.
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B.
Emily Willans
Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
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C.
Elizabeth Hodgkin
Elizabeth Hodgkin is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning chemist and crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin.
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D.
Louisa Matilda Jacobs
Louisa Matilda Jacobs was the daughter of formerly enslaved author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, known for assisting her mother’s activism and later working as a teacher and writer.
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E.
Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
- 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: Emily Davies Target entity description: Emily Davies was a pioneering British feminist and educational reformer who played a key role in opening university education to women in the 19th century.
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A.
Elizabeth Fisher
Elizabeth Fisher was the wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony leader Stephen Hopkins, known primarily through her connection to early colonial American history.
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B.
Emily Willans
Emily Willans was the mother of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and a member of the Victorian-era English middle class.
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C.
Elizabeth Hodgkin
Elizabeth Hodgkin is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning chemist and crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin.
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D.
Louisa Matilda Jacobs
Louisa Matilda Jacobs was the daughter of formerly enslaved author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, known for assisting her mother’s activism and later working as a teacher and writer.
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E.
Mary Jane Ward
Mary Jane Ward was an American novelist best known for her semi-autobiographical work "The Snake Pit," which exposed the harsh realities of mid-20th-century psychiatric institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British suffragist
ⓘ
college of the University of Cambridge ⓘ educational reformer ⓘ feminist ⓘ human ⓘ women's rights organization ⓘ |
| activeIn |
19th-century educational reform in Britain
ⓘ
19th-century women's rights movement ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St Mary's Churchyard, Gateshead ⓘ |
| coFounded | Girton College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1830-04-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1921-07-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | home education ⓘ |
| familyName | Davies ⓘ |
| father | John Davies ⓘ |
| fullName | Sarah Emily Davies ⓘ |
| givenName | Emily ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for women's suffrage in Britain
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campaigning for women's access to university education ⓘ co-founding Girton College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Langham Place Group
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London National Society for Women's Suffrage ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Hopkinson ⓘ |
| movement |
first-wave feminism
ⓘ
women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Higher Education of Women ⓘ |
| occupation |
clergyman
ⓘ
education activist ⓘ educational theorist ⓘ feminist writer ⓘ suffragist ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Carlton Crescent, Southampton
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England ⓘ Southampton ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
ⓘ
Gateshead ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | liberal feminism ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founding principal of Girton College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Gateshead
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling | John Llewelyn Davies ⓘ |
| wrote | The Higher Education of Women ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Emily Davies Description of subject: Emily Davies was a pioneering British feminist and educational reformer who played a key role in opening university education to women in the 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
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