Edith Schlain Windsor
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Edith Schlain Windsor was an American LGBTQ+ rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case helped overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and advanced federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edith Schlain Windsor canonical | 3 |
| Edith Windsor | 3 |
| Edie Windsor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3830468 — 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: Edith Schlain Windsor Context triple: [Windsor v. United States (in part), plaintiff, Edith Schlain Windsor]
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A.
April DeBoer
April DeBoer is an American nurse and LGBT rights activist known for challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage and adoption bans in the landmark case DeBoer v. Snyder, which contributed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage.
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B.
Joan Roberts
Joan Roberts was an American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Laurey in the landmark 1943 Broadway musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Martha Finnemore
Martha Finnemore is a prominent American international relations scholar known for her influential work on constructivism and the role of norms and international organizations in global politics.
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D.
Judith Kaye
Judith Kaye was a pioneering American jurist who became the first woman and longest-serving Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
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E.
Damaris Hopkins
Damaris Hopkins was a young girl who traveled on the Mayflower as a member of Stephen Hopkins’ family in 1620.
- 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: Edith Schlain Windsor Target entity description: Edith Schlain Windsor was an American LGBTQ+ rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case helped overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and advanced federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
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A.
April DeBoer
April DeBoer is an American nurse and LGBT rights activist known for challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage and adoption bans in the landmark case DeBoer v. Snyder, which contributed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage.
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B.
Joan Roberts
Joan Roberts was an American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Laurey in the landmark 1943 Broadway musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Martha Finnemore
Martha Finnemore is a prominent American international relations scholar known for her influential work on constructivism and the role of norms and international organizations in global politics.
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D.
Judith Kaye
Judith Kaye was a pioneering American jurist who became the first woman and longest-serving Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
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E.
Damaris Hopkins
Damaris Hopkins was a young girl who traveled on the Mayflower as a member of Stephen Hopkins’ family in 1620.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American citizen
ⓘ
LGBT rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ plaintiff ⓘ same-sex marriage activist ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
bachelor's degree in psychology
ⓘ
master's degree in mathematics ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Edith Schlain Windsor
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surface form:
Edie Windsor
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| awardReceived |
American Civil Liberties Union Medal of Liberty
ⓘ
National LGBTQ Task Force Creating Change Award ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Mount Ararat Cemetery
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surface form:
Mount Ararat Cemetery, New York, United States
|
| causeOfDeath | cardiac arrhythmia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-06-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-09-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDecision | 2013-06-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
ⓘ
Temple University ⓘ |
| employer | IBM ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Schlain ⓘ |
| filedLawsuit | United States v. Windsor ⓘ |
| fullName | Edith Schlain Windsor self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Edith ⓘ |
| honor | New York City street co-named "Edie Windsor Way" ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for federal recognition of same-sex marriages
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challenging the Defense of Marriage Act in the United States v. Windsor case ⓘ |
| legalActionAgainst |
Defense of Marriage Act
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surface form:
Defense of Marriage Act, Section 3
|
| marriageDate | 2007-05-22 ⓘ |
| marriagePlace |
Toronto
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surface form:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
ⓘ
same-sex marriage movement ⓘ |
| notableWork | United States v. Windsor ⓘ |
| occupation |
LGBT rights activist
ⓘ
computer programmer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| partner | Thea Spyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| resultOfCase | striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| spouse |
Judith Kasen-Windsor
ⓘ
Thea Spyer ⓘ |
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: Edith Schlain Windsor Description of subject: Edith Schlain Windsor was an American LGBTQ+ rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case helped overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and advanced federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edie Windsor
this entity surface form:
Edith Windsor
subject surface form:
United States v. Windsor
this entity surface form:
Edith Windsor
subject surface form:
United States v. Windsor
this entity surface form:
Edith Windsor