Cecilia Suyat
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Cecilia Suyat was a Filipino American civil rights activist and secretary who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the NAACP and was the wife of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cecilia Suyat canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2234538 — 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: Cecilia Suyat Context triple: [Cecilia Suyat Marshall, birthName, Cecilia Suyat]
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A.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Maya Soetoro-Ng is an Indonesian-born American educator and writer best known as the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Maria Fitel
Maria Fitel is an alumna of the private Lakeside School in Seattle, known for educating many prominent figures in technology and business.
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C.
Suhaila Ng
Suhaila Ng is the daughter of educator and author Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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D.
Jacinta Marto
Jacinta Marto was a young Portuguese shepherd girl and one of the three child visionaries who reported seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Fátima in 1917, later becoming a canonized Catholic saint.
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E.
Elizabeth Pomada
Elizabeth Pomada is an American author and historian best known for popularizing San Francisco’s colorful Victorian houses through her influential work on the “Painted Ladies.”
- 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: Cecilia Suyat Target entity description: Cecilia Suyat was a Filipino American civil rights activist and secretary who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the NAACP and was the wife of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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A.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Maya Soetoro-Ng is an Indonesian-born American educator and writer best known as the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Maria Fitel
Maria Fitel is an alumna of the private Lakeside School in Seattle, known for educating many prominent figures in technology and business.
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C.
Suhaila Ng
Suhaila Ng is the daughter of educator and author Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is the maternal half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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D.
Jacinta Marto
Jacinta Marto was a young Portuguese shepherd girl and one of the three child visionaries who reported seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Fátima in 1917, later becoming a canonized Catholic saint.
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E.
Elizabeth Pomada
Elizabeth Pomada is an American author and historian best known for popularizing San Francisco’s colorful Victorian houses through her influential work on the “Painted Ladies.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Filipino American
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ secretary ⓘ |
| affiliation | NAACP ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | NAACP ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Filipino American ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Filipino ⓘ |
| familyName | Suyat ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights
ⓘ
legal administration ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Cecilia ⓘ |
| languageUsed | English ⓘ |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
|
| name | Cecilia Suyat self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
behind-the-scenes role in the NAACP
ⓘ
being the wife of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ⓘ supporting civil rights litigation efforts ⓘ |
| notableWork | behind-the-scenes work for the NAACP ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
secretary ⓘ |
| partOf | African-American civil rights era support network ⓘ |
| relative | Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| role |
administrative support for civil rights cases
ⓘ
organizational support within NAACP ⓘ |
| spouse | Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
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: Cecilia Suyat Description of subject: Cecilia Suyat was a Filipino American civil rights activist and secretary who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the NAACP and was the wife of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.