Elsie Worthington Clews
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Elsie Worthington Clews, better known as Elsie Clews Parsons, was an influential American anthropologist and folklorist noted for her pioneering studies of Native American and African American cultures and for her progressive views on gender and social customs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elsie Worthington Clews canonical | 1 |
| Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8533992 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elsie Worthington Clews Context triple: [Elsie Clews Parsons, birthName, Elsie Worthington Clews]
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A.
Elsie Rosaline Masson
Elsie Rosaline Masson was an Australian photographer, writer, and traveler known for her work documenting life in the Pacific and for her marriage to anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski.
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B.
Eleanor Stanhope
Eleanor Stanhope is a fictional member of the Stanhope family in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known primarily as the sister of Signor Bertie Stanhope.
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C.
Cecily Shackleton
Cecily Shackleton was a daughter of the famed Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
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D.
Beatrice Ffrench-Salkeld
Beatrice Ffrench-Salkeld was an Irish artist and illustrator best known as the wife of playwright and author Brendan Behan.
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E.
Rosamond Marshall
Rosamond Marshall was an American novelist best known for writing romantic and historical fiction, including the work that inspired the 1945 film "Kitty."
- 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: Elsie Worthington Clews Target entity description: Elsie Worthington Clews, better known as Elsie Clews Parsons, was an influential American anthropologist and folklorist noted for her pioneering studies of Native American and African American cultures and for her progressive views on gender and social customs.
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A.
Elsie Rosaline Masson
Elsie Rosaline Masson was an Australian photographer, writer, and traveler known for her work documenting life in the Pacific and for her marriage to anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski.
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B.
Eleanor Stanhope
Eleanor Stanhope is a fictional member of the Stanhope family in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known primarily as the sister of Signor Bertie Stanhope.
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C.
Cecily Shackleton
Cecily Shackleton was a daughter of the famed Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
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D.
Beatrice Ffrench-Salkeld
Beatrice Ffrench-Salkeld was an Irish artist and illustrator best known as the wife of playwright and author Brendan Behan.
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E.
Rosamond Marshall
Rosamond Marshall was an American novelist best known for writing romantic and historical fiction, including the work that inspired the 1945 film "Kitty."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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human ⓘ sociologist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Elsie Clews Parsons
NERFINISHED
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Elsie Parsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Elsie Worthington Clews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1875-11-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1941-12-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Barnard College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Columbia University ⓘ |
| employer |
Barnard College
NERFINISHED
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New School for Social Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Clews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
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cultural anthropology ⓘ folklore studies ⓘ gender studies ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| givenName | Elsie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
critique of conventional marriage and family norms
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pioneering studies of African American folklore ⓘ pioneering studies of Native American cultures ⓘ progressive views on gender roles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Anthropological Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
first-wave feminism
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progressivism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Indian Life
NERFINISHED
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Fear and Conventionality NERFINISHED ⓘ Folk-Lore of the Sea Islands, South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ Pueblo Indian Religion NERFINISHED ⓘ Social Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ The Family NERFINISHED ⓘ The Old-Fashioned Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the American Folklore Society ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Herbert Parsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studied |
African American communities in the Sea Islands
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Hopi people NERFINISHED ⓘ Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest ⓘ Zuni people 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: Elsie Worthington Clews Description of subject: Elsie Worthington Clews, better known as Elsie Clews Parsons, was an influential American anthropologist and folklorist noted for her pioneering studies of Native American and African American cultures and for her progressive views on gender and social customs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons