May Wright Sewall
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May Wright Sewall was an American educator, suffragist, and social reformer known for her leadership in the women’s rights and peace movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| May Wright Sewall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3887587 — 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: May Wright Sewall Context triple: [Sewall, hasNotableBearer, May Wright Sewall]
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A.
Maria White Lowell
Maria White Lowell was a 19th-century American poet and abolitionist, known both for her own literary work and for her influence on her husband, James Russell Lowell.
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B.
Maud Howe Elliott
Maud Howe Elliott was an American author and biographer, best known for co-writing the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe.
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C.
Alice Howe Gibbens
Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
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D.
Emily Hodgkin
Emily Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname.
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E.
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- 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: May Wright Sewall Target entity description: May Wright Sewall was an American educator, suffragist, and social reformer known for her leadership in the women’s rights and peace movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Maria White Lowell
Maria White Lowell was a 19th-century American poet and abolitionist, known both for her own literary work and for her influence on her husband, James Russell Lowell.
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B.
Maud Howe Elliott
Maud Howe Elliott was an American author and biographer, best known for co-writing the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe.
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C.
Alice Howe Gibbens
Alice Howe Gibbens was an American schoolteacher and social reformer best known as the wife and intellectual partner of philosopher and psychologist William James.
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D.
Emily Hodgkin
Emily Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname.
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E.
Anne Spencer Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
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human ⓘ social reformer ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1844-05-27 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1920-07-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Evanston College for Ladies
ⓘ
surface form:
Northwestern Female College
Northwestern University ⓘ |
| era |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
peace activism ⓘ social reform ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName |
Sewall
ⓘ
Wright ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | May ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding and leading women's organizations
ⓘ
leadership in American women's suffrage ⓘ promotion of international peace ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Indianapolis Woman's Club
ⓘ
International Council of Women ⓘ National American Woman Suffrage Association ⓘ International Council of Women ⓘ
surface form:
National Council of Women of the United States
National Woman Suffrage Association ⓘ |
| movement |
peace movement
ⓘ
women's rights movement ⓘ women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
autobiographical and reform writings on women's rights and peace
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founding of the Indianapolis Classical School for Girls ⓘ leadership in the International Council of Women ⓘ leadership in the National Council of Women of the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
peace activist ⓘ social reformer ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Greenfield, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Indianapolis
ⓘ
surface form:
Indianapolis, Indiana
|
| positionHeld |
chair of the executive committee of the International Council of Women
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leader in the Indianapolis Woman's Club ⓘ president of the Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society ⓘ president of the National Council of Women of the United States ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| residence |
Indianapolis
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surface form:
Indianapolis, Indiana
|
| spouse | Theodore Lovett Sewall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: May Wright Sewall Description of subject: May Wright Sewall was an American educator, suffragist, and social reformer known for her leadership in the women’s rights and peace movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.