Phyllis Lyon
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Phyllis Lyon was a pioneering American lesbian activist, journalist, and co-founder of the influential homophile organization Daughters of Bilitis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phyllis Lyon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8543820 — 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: Phyllis Lyon Context triple: [The Ladder, editorInChief, Phyllis Lyon]
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A.
Tillie Schlaine
Tillie Schlaine is the central female protagonist of the 1972 romantic dramedy film "Pete 'n' Tillie," portrayed by Carol Burnett.
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B.
Venida Browder
Venida Browder was the mother of Kalief Browder and a prominent advocate for criminal justice reform whose family’s ordeal drew national attention to the harms of pretrial detention and the bail system in the United States.
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C.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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D.
Gloria Connors
Gloria Connors was an American tennis coach best known as the mother and early mentor of tennis champion Jimmy Connors.
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E.
Mildred Davis
Mildred Davis was an American silent film actress best known for her leading roles opposite comedian Harold Lloyd in the 1920s.
- 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: Phyllis Lyon Target entity description: Phyllis Lyon was a pioneering American lesbian activist, journalist, and co-founder of the influential homophile organization Daughters of Bilitis.
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A.
Tillie Schlaine
Tillie Schlaine is the central female protagonist of the 1972 romantic dramedy film "Pete 'n' Tillie," portrayed by Carol Burnett.
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B.
Florence Rabe
Florence Rabe, better known by her stage name Florence Bates, was an American character actress prominent in Hollywood films of the 1940s.
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C.
Venida Browder
Venida Browder was the mother of Kalief Browder and a prominent advocate for criminal justice reform whose family’s ordeal drew national attention to the harms of pretrial detention and the bail system in the United States.
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D.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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E.
Gloria Connors
Gloria Connors was an American tennis coach best known as the mother and early mentor of tennis champion Jimmy Connors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT rights activist
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ lesbian activist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
lesbian visibility
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same-sex marriage ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| coAuthoredWith | Del Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Daughters of Bilitis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-11-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-04-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
LGBT history
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ women's studies ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding the Daughters of Bilitis
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pioneering lesbian rights activism in the United States ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedIn | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
National Organization for Women NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
ⓘ
feminist movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first same-sex marriage licensed in San Francisco in 2004 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Daughters of Bilitis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lesbian Love and Liberation NERFINISHED ⓘ Lesbian/Woman ⓘ |
| occupation |
LGBT rights activist
ⓘ
editor ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| partner | Del Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor of The Ladder ⓘ |
| religion | agnosticism ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| spouse | Del Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedFor | The Ladder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Phyllis Lyon Description of subject: Phyllis Lyon was a pioneering American lesbian activist, journalist, and co-founder of the influential homophile organization Daughters of Bilitis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.