Cecilia Suyat Marshall
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Cecilia Suyat Marshall was a Filipino American civil rights activist and longtime NAACP staff member who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement and was married to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cecilia Suyat Marshall canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T84526 — 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: Cecilia Suyat Marshall Context triple: [Thurgood Marshall, spouse, Cecilia Suyat Marshall]
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A.
Mary Benedict Cushing
Mary Benedict Cushing was a prominent American socialite from the influential Cushing family, known for her high-profile marriages into wealthy dynasties including that of Vincent Astor.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Carole Robertson
Carole Robertson was a 14-year-old African American girl and civil rights martyr who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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E.
Nancy Packard Burnett
Nancy Packard Burnett is an American philanthropist and member of the Packard family who has supported environmental, educational, and cultural initiatives.
- 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: Cecilia Suyat Marshall Target entity description: Cecilia Suyat Marshall was a Filipino American civil rights activist and longtime NAACP staff member who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement and was married to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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A.
Mary Benedict Cushing
Mary Benedict Cushing was a prominent American socialite from the influential Cushing family, known for her high-profile marriages into wealthy dynasties including that of Vincent Astor.
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B.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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C.
Lucille Sheardown
Lucille Sheardown was one of the later wives of American inventor Lee de Forest, associated with his personal life rather than his pioneering work in radio and electronics.
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D.
Carole Robertson
Carole Robertson was a 14-year-old African American girl and civil rights martyr who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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E.
Nancy Packard Burnett
Nancy Packard Burnett is an American philanthropist and member of the Packard family who has supported environmental, educational, and cultural initiatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Filipino American
ⓘ
NAACP staff member ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brown v. Board of Education
ⓘ
NAACP civil rights litigation campaigns ⓘ |
| birthName | Cecilia Suyat ⓘ |
| child |
John W. Marshall
ⓘ
Thurgood Marshall Jr. ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-07-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-11-22 ⓘ |
| employer |
NAACP
ⓘ
surface form:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
|
| ethnicGroup |
Asian American
ⓘ
surface form:
Filipino American
|
| familyName | Marshall ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights
ⓘ
racial equality ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Cecilia ⓘ |
| heritage | Filipino ⓘ |
| knownFor | behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1955 ⓘ |
| memberOf |
NAACP
ⓘ
surface form:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
|
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the widow of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
ⓘ
supporting legal work on Brown v. Board of Education ⓘ |
| notableWork | behind-the-scenes work in the civil rights movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
NAACP staff member
ⓘ
civil rights activist ⓘ secretary ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Puʻunēnē, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Falls Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| spouse | Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| workedAt |
NAACP
ⓘ
surface form:
NAACP national office in New York
|
| workedWith |
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
ⓘ
surface form:
NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys
Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Cecilia Suyat Marshall Description of subject: Cecilia Suyat Marshall was a Filipino American civil rights activist and longtime NAACP staff member who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement and was married to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thurgood Marshall