"Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay)
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"Now We Can Begin" is a 1920 feminist essay by Crystal Eastman that outlines a radical vision for women's equality beyond the achievement of suffrage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T371020 — 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: "Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay) Context triple: [Crystal Eastman, notableWork, "Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay)]
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A.
The American Scholar
The American Scholar is a landmark 1837 address-turned-essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that helped define American intellectual independence and the philosophy of Transcendentalism.
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B.
As We May Think
As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
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C.
Russell–Einstein Manifesto
The Russell–Einstein Manifesto is a 1955 public statement by leading scientists warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons and urging world leaders to seek peaceful conflict resolution.
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D.
The University Bookman
The University Bookman is a long-running conservative literary and cultural journal known for its book reviews and essays on politics, tradition, and society.
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E.
The Veteran in a New Field
The Veteran in a New Field is an 1865 oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer that depicts a Union soldier turned farmer, symbolizing the nation’s transition from Civil War to peace.
- 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: "Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay) Target entity description: "Now We Can Begin" is a 1920 feminist essay by Crystal Eastman that outlines a radical vision for women's equality beyond the achievement of suffrage.
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A.
The American Scholar
The American Scholar is a landmark 1837 address-turned-essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that helped define American intellectual independence and the philosophy of Transcendentalism.
-
B.
As We May Think
As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
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C.
Russell–Einstein Manifesto
The Russell–Einstein Manifesto is a 1955 public statement by leading scientists warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons and urging world leaders to seek peaceful conflict resolution.
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D.
The University Bookman
The University Bookman is a long-running conservative literary and cultural journal known for its book reviews and essays on politics, tradition, and society.
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E.
The Veteran in a New Field
The Veteran in a New Field is an 1865 oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer that depicts a Union soldier turned farmer, symbolizing the nation’s transition from Civil War to peace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
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feminist essay ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
collective responsibility for childcare
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men's participation in housework ⓘ women's economic autonomy ⓘ |
| author | Crystal Eastman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| critiques | limiting feminism to the right to vote ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
economic independence for women
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equality beyond women's suffrage ⓘ redefinition of marriage and family roles ⓘ shared domestic labor ⓘ women's freedom in work and love ⓘ |
| genre |
feminist literature
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political essay ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
frequently cited in histories of American feminism
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used in women's studies and gender studies curricula ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | socialist-feminist viewpoint ⓘ |
| historicalContext | written after ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
women's suffrage movement
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surface form:
U.S. suffrage movement
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
feminism
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post-suffrage feminism ⓘ women's equality ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| movement | first-wave feminism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
articulating a post-suffrage feminist agenda
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early analysis of unpaid domestic labor as a barrier to women's equality ⓘ |
| partOf | Crystal Eastman's feminist writings ⓘ |
| proposes |
radical restructuring of gender roles
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social and economic reforms to achieve gender equality ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1920 ⓘ |
| title | Now We Can Begin ⓘ |
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: "Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay) Description of subject: "Now We Can Begin" is a 1920 feminist essay by Crystal Eastman that outlines a radical vision for women's equality beyond the achievement of suffrage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.