Progressive Era

All labels observed (21)

Label	Occurrences
Progressive Era canonical	128
Progressive Era in the United States	17
Progressive Era United States	11
Progressivism	7
Progressive Era reform movement	3
Progressive Era reforms	3
Progressive Era in United States history	2
Progressive Era reform	2
Progressive movement	2
Progressive Era (early 20th century)	1
Progressive Era (early phase)	1
Progressive Era conservation movement	1
Progressive Era domestic reform	1
Progressive Era literature	1
Progressive Era politics	1
Progressive Era reform movements	1
Progressive movement in the United States	1
Progressive reform movement	1
United States Progressive Era	1
United States in the early 20th century	1
early 20th-century United States	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11744 — 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: Progressive Era
Context triple: [Gilded Age, followedBy, Progressive Era]

A. Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a late 19th-century period in the United States marked by rapid industrialization, vast wealth accumulation, stark social inequality, and influential business magnates like Andrew Carnegie.
B. Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.
C. Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.
D. Interwar period
The Interwar period was the turbulent era between World War I and World War II marked by political upheaval, economic crises, and the rise of totalitarian regimes across Europe and beyond.
E. Age of Imperialism
The Age of Imperialism was a period, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when industrialized Western powers expanded their control over vast territories in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific for economic, political, and strategic dominance.
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: Progressive Era
Target entity description: The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform in the United States, roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s, aimed at addressing problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and political corruption.

A. Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a late 19th-century period in the United States marked by rapid industrialization, vast wealth accumulation, stark social inequality, and influential business magnates like Andrew Carnegie.
B. Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.
C. Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.
D. Interwar period
The Interwar period was the turbulent era between World War I and World War II marked by political upheaval, economic crises, and the rise of totalitarian regimes across Europe and beyond.
E. Age of Imperialism
The Age of Imperialism was a period, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when industrialized Western powers expanded their control over vast territories in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific for economic, political, and strategic dominance.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical era ⓘ reform movement ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	1920s ⓘ
field	American political history ⓘ American social history ⓘ
followedBy	Roaring Twenties ⓘ
goal	conservation of natural resources ⓘ efficiency in government ⓘ expansion of democracy ⓘ improvement of working conditions ⓘ moral reform ⓘ protection of consumers ⓘ reduction of political corruption ⓘ regulation of big business ⓘ social justice ⓘ
hasCause	growing economic inequality ⓘ industrialization in the United States ⓘ labor unrest ⓘ political corruption in the United States ⓘ rise of large corporations and trusts ⓘ urbanization in the United States ⓘ
hasPart	antitrust enforcement ⓘ child labor reform ⓘ civil service reform ⓘ conservation movement ⓘ direct democracy reforms ⓘ education reform ⓘ eugenics movement ⓘ food and drug regulation ⓘ immigration restriction debates ⓘ labor regulation ⓘ muckraking journalism ⓘ municipal reform ⓘ prison reform ⓘ public health campaigns ⓘ racial segregation policies ⓘ settlement house movement ⓘ temperance movement ⓘ trust-busting policies ⓘ women's suffrage movement ⓘ
influencedBy	Populist movement ⓘ Christian social gospel ⓘ surface form: Social Gospel movement scientific management ideas ⓘ
overlapsWith	World War I ⓘ
significantEvent	Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 ⓘ Federal Reserve Act of 1913 ⓘ Federal Trade Commission Act provisions ⓘ surface form: Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 Keating–Owen Child Labor Act ⓘ surface form: Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 Federal Meat Inspection Act ⓘ surface form: Meat Inspection Act of 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 ⓘ Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire ⓘ election of 1912 in the United States ⓘ formation of the Progressive Party (1912) ⓘ initiative, referendum, and recall reforms in various states ⓘ Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ surface form: presidency of Theodore Roosevelt presidency of William Howard Taft ⓘ presidency of Woodrow Wilson ⓘ
significantFigure	Alice Paul ⓘ Booker T. Washington ⓘ Carrie Chapman Catt ⓘ Florence Kelley ⓘ Gifford Pinchot ⓘ Ida B. Wells ⓘ Ida Tarbell ⓘ Jane Addams ⓘ Lincoln Steffens ⓘ Robert M. La Follette ⓘ Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ Upton Sinclair ⓘ W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ President William Howard Taft ⓘ surface form: William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson ⓘ
startTime	1890s ⓘ

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Referenced by (187)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chicago Daily Inter Ocean → locatedInTime → Progressive Era ⓘ

Dorothy Arnold → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era United States

Chief Factory Inspector of Illinois → historicalPeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

Chief Factory Inspector of Illinois → influencedBy → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era reform movement

Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation → historicalContext → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era in the United States

Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation → associatedWithMovement → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive movement

New Nationalism → historicalPeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917 → belongsToPeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era in United States history

Susan Lawrence Dana → movement → Progressive Era ⓘ

Chautauqua movement → movement → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era reform

The Lion and the Mouse → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era United States

Cady, Berg & See → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism → subject → Progressive Era ⓘ

Leadership in Turbulent Times → timePeriodCovered → Progressive Era ⓘ

Culture and Democracy in the United States → historicalContext → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: early 20th-century United States

Northern Securities Co. v. United States → historicalEra → Progressive Era ⓘ

William Howard Taft administration → partOf → Progressive Era ⓘ

Piccirilli Brothers → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

Key West Extension → historicalEra → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era United States

United States antitrust law → historicalDevelopment → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era reforms

Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth → historicalContext → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era in the United States

Edward Henry Harriman → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

John Maynard Harlan → movement → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressivism

L. Bamberger & Co. → historicalEra → Progressive Era ⓘ

Income Tax Amendment → historicalEra → Progressive Era ⓘ

Medical Reserve Corps of the U.S. Army → establishedInPeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

Hay-Chamberlain Act → timePeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

Manhattan Opera House → historicalPeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era United States

Arthur Powell Davis → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

Sport → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

subject surface form: Sport Sullivan

this entity surface form: Progressive Era United States

Melville Fuller → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

Clara Hesperia Bannister Congdon → era → Progressive Era ⓘ

Nathan F. Barrett → timePeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

Roosevelt’s library → associatedWithTheme → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era politics

California Mission Revival → architecturalStylePeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

Mann–Elkins Act → partOf → Progressive Era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Progressive Era reforms

Mann–Elkins Act → historicalPeriod → Progressive Era ⓘ

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