Nora Stanton Blatch
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Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nora Stanton Blatch canonical | 6 |
| Nora Stanton Blatch De Forest Barney | 2 |
| Nora Stanton Blatch Barney | 1 |
| employing suffragist Nora Stanton Blatch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2751 — 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: Nora Stanton Blatch Context triple: [Lee de Forest, spouse, Nora Stanton Blatch]
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A.
Margaret Carnegie Miller
Margaret Carnegie Miller was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, known primarily for her role as heir to his fortune and for her own philanthropic activities.
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B.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was a prominent American political figure, diplomat, and activist who redefined the role of First Lady and championed human rights and social justice worldwide.
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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.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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E.
Louise Whitfield Carnegie
Louise Whitfield Carnegie was an American philanthropist best known as the wife and partner in charitable work of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
- 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: Nora Stanton Blatch Target entity description: Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
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A.
Margaret Carnegie Miller
Margaret Carnegie Miller was the only child of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, known primarily for her role as heir to his fortune and for her own philanthropic activities.
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B.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was a prominent American political figure, diplomat, and activist who redefined the role of First Lady and championed human rights and social justice worldwide.
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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.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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E.
Louise Whitfield Carnegie
Louise Whitfield Carnegie was an American philanthropist best known as the wife and partner in charitable work of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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architect ⓘ civil engineer ⓘ feminist ⓘ person ⓘ suffragist ⓘ women's rights activist ⓘ |
| activismFocus |
women's access to engineering professions
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women's right to vote ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1883-09-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Basingstoke, Hampshire, England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1971-01-18 ⓘ |
| degreeEarned | Bachelor of Civil Engineering ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Cornell University ⓘ |
| employer |
American Bridge Company
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New York City Department of Environmental Protection ⓘ
surface form:
New York City Board of Water Supply
Radley Steel Construction Company ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ
surface form:
United States Navy (civilian engineer)
|
| familyName | Blatch ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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civil engineering ⓘ women's rights ⓘ women's suffrage ⓘ |
| fullName |
Nora Stanton Blatch
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Nora Stanton Blatch De Forest Barney
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Nora ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1905 ⓘ |
| grandmother | Elizabeth Cady Stanton ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1911 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1908-02-14 ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Society of Civil Engineers ⓘ |
| mother | Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree
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first female junior member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ⓘ first woman to earn a degree in civil engineering from Cornell University ⓘ |
| notableWork |
design and construction projects as an architect and engineer
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engineering work on New York City water supply projects ⓘ |
| politicalMovement |
women's rights movement
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women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| relative |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch ⓘ |
| residence |
Fairfield, Connecticut
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surface form:
Greenwich, Connecticut
New York City ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lee de Forest
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surface form:
Lee De Forest
Morgan Barney ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Nora Stanton Blatch Description of subject: Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nora Stanton Blatch De Forest Barney
this entity surface form:
employing suffragist Nora Stanton Blatch
subject surface form:
Nora Stanton Blatch
this entity surface form:
Nora Stanton Blatch De Forest Barney
this entity surface form:
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney