Mary Church Terrell
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Mary Church Terrell was a pioneering African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who helped lead early 20th-century struggles against racial and gender discrimination.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Church Terrell canonical | 10 |
| Mary Eliza Church Terrell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T462151 — 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.
Target entity: Mary Church Terrell Context triple: [NAACP, founder, Mary Church Terrell]
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Marguerite Erskine Walker
Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Isabel Mary Wells
Isabel Mary Wells was the first wife of English writer H. G. Wells, whom he married in 1891 before their eventual separation.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent American suffragist and peace activist who led the campaign for women’s right to vote and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Lotus Thompson
Lotus Thompson was an Australian-born silent film actress who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions during the 1920s.
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Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mary Church Terrell Target entity description: Mary Church Terrell was a pioneering African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who helped lead early 20th-century struggles against racial and gender discrimination.
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A.
Marguerite Erskine Walker
Marguerite Erskine Walker was the wife of American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse and a prominent Pittsburgh social figure and philanthropist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Isabel Mary Wells
Isabel Mary Wells was the first wife of English writer H. G. Wells, whom he married in 1891 before their eventual separation.
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C.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent American suffragist and peace activist who led the campaign for women’s right to vote and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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D.
Lotus Thompson
Lotus Thompson was an Australian-born silent film actress who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions during the 1920s.
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E.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ suffragist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Master of Arts ⓘ |
| awardReceived | honorary degree from Howard University ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Eliza Church ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland, Maryland, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiovascular disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1863-09-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1954-07-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Antioch College
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surface form:
Antioch College (preparatory studies)
Oberlin College ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Church Terrell ⓘ |
| father |
Robert Church
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surface form:
Robert Reed Church
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| fieldOfWork |
civil rights
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education ⓘ racial equality ⓘ women's suffrage ⓘ |
| fullName |
Mary Church Terrell
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mary Eliza Church Terrell
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| genre | autobiography ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| honoredIn | Mary Church Terrell House National Historic Landmark in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for Black women's suffrage
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campaigns against lynching ⓘ campaigns against segregation in Washington, D.C. ⓘ early activism in the NAACP ⓘ leadership in the National Association of Colored Women ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National American Woman Suffrage Association
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NAACP ⓘ
surface form:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of Colored Women ⓘ |
| middleName | Eliza ⓘ |
| mother | Louisa Ayers Church ⓘ |
| movement |
National Association of Colored Women
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surface form:
Black women's club movement
American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent | helped desegregate restaurants in Washington, D.C. through lawsuits and protests in the 1950s ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Colored Woman in a White World ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Memphis, Tennessee, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Annapolis
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surface form:
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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| positionHeld |
charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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founding president of the National Association of Colored Women ⓘ member of the Washington, D.C. Board of Education ⓘ president of the National Association of Colored Women ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Robert Heberton Terrell ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Mary Church Terrell Description of subject: Mary Church Terrell was a pioneering African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who helped lead early 20th-century struggles against racial and gender discrimination.
Referenced by (11)
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