Mary
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Mary is the given name of Mary Church Terrell, a prominent African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2699277 — 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: Mary Context triple: [Mary Church Terrell, givenName, Mary]
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Mary
Mary is a central figure in Christianity, venerated as the mother of Jesus and often honored as the Virgin Mary.
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B.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a noted author and singer.
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C.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of the acclaimed American actress Meryl Streep.
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D.
Mary
Mary is a minor character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," known as Tom's kind and well-behaved cousin.
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E.
Mary
Mary Eleanor Darwin was a member of the Darwin family, known primarily as a descendant of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
- 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: Mary Target entity description: Mary is the given name of Mary Church Terrell, a prominent African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century English writer and advocate of women's rights.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Everest Boole, a 19th-century mathematics educator known for her innovative ideas on teaching mathematics, especially to children.
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Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Cassatt, the renowned American Impressionist painter known for her depictions of women and children.
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Mary
Mary is the birth name of the acclaimed British actress Vivien Leigh, renowned for her roles in "Gone with the Wind" and "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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E.
Mary
Mary is the given first name of Margaret Truman, the daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a noted author and singer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
desegregation of public accommodations
ⓘ
equal educational opportunities for African Americans ⓘ women's voting rights ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1863-09-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1954-07-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Oberlin College ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Church Terrell ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights
ⓘ
education ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NAACP
ⓘ
National American Woman Suffrage Association ⓘ National Association of Colored Women ⓘ |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for women's suffrage
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being one of the first African American women to earn a college degree ⓘ campaigning for racial equality ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Colored Woman in a White World ⓘ |
| occupation |
lecturer
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | legal challenges against segregation in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Memphis, Tennessee, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Annapolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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| positionHeld |
charter member of the NAACP
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co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women ⓘ member of the Washington, D.C. Board of Education ⓘ president of the National Association of Colored Women ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Robert Heberton Terrell ⓘ |
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: Mary Description of subject: Mary is the given name of Mary Church Terrell, a prominent African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary Church Terrell