Mary Haas
E391384
Mary Haas was an influential American linguist renowned for her work on Native American languages and for training a generation of field linguists in the Boasian tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Haas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3382322 — 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 Haas Context triple: [Boasian linguistics, keyFigure, Mary Haas]
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A.
Betty Haas
Betty Haas is known as the former wife of American politician and longtime U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman.
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B.
Anne Schaefer
Anne Schaefer was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century, appearing in numerous productions during the 1910s and 1920s.
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C.
Elizabeth Paepcke
Elizabeth Paepcke was an American philanthropist and cultural visionary who, with her husband Walter, played a central role in transforming Aspen, Colorado into an international center for arts, ideas, and intellectual dialogue.
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D.
Martha Schmellinsky
Martha Schmellinsky was the wife of East German leader Walter Ulbricht and thus part of the political elite of the German Democratic Republic.
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E.
Fay Hauser
Fay Hauser is an American actress and director known for her work in film and television since the 1970s, including roles in notable dramas and comedies.
- 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 Haas Target entity description: Mary Haas was an influential American linguist renowned for her work on Native American languages and for training a generation of field linguists in the Boasian tradition.
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A.
Betty Haas
Betty Haas is known as the former wife of American politician and longtime U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman.
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B.
Anne Schaefer
Anne Schaefer was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century, appearing in numerous productions during the 1910s and 1920s.
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C.
Elizabeth Paepcke
Elizabeth Paepcke was an American philanthropist and cultural visionary who, with her husband Walter, played a central role in transforming Aspen, Colorado into an international center for arts, ideas, and intellectual dialogue.
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D.
Martha Schmellinsky
Martha Schmellinsky was the wife of East German leader Walter Ulbricht and thus part of the political elite of the German Democratic Republic.
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E.
Fay Hauser
Fay Hauser is an American actress and director known for her work in film and television since the 1970s, including roles in notable dramas and comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American linguist
ⓘ
human ⓘ linguist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | Boasian linguistics ⓘ |
| approach |
comparative method in historical linguistics
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field-based descriptive linguistics ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of field methods in linguistics
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training of Native American language specialists ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Earlham College
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University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Haas ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Native American languages
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historical linguistics ⓘ language documentation ⓘ language revitalization ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edward Sapir
ⓘ
Franz Boas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Boasian tradition in linguistics
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training field linguists ⓘ work on Native American languages ⓘ |
| languagesStudied |
Alabama (language)
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Creek ⓘ Haas (language family research on Algic languages) ⓘ Koasati ⓘ Natchez ⓘ Thai ⓘ Tunica ⓘ |
| memberOf | Linguistic Society of America ⓘ |
| movement |
Bloomfieldian structuralism
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surface form:
American structural linguistics
|
| notableStudent |
Charles F. Hockett
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surface form:
Charles Hockett
Karl Teeter NERFINISHED ⓘ Murray Emeneau ⓘ Wallace Chafe NERFINISHED ⓘ William Bright ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Grammar of the Tunica Language
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Thai-English Student’s Dictionary ⓘ The Language of the Kutenai Indians of British Columbia ⓘ |
| occupation |
linguistics professor
ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the Linguistic Society of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berkeley
ⓘ
surface form:
Berkeley, California
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mary Haas Description of subject: Mary Haas was an influential American linguist renowned for her work on Native American languages and for training a generation of field linguists in the Boasian tradition.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.