Katherine Medill McCormick

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birth control activist human philanthropist suffragist

Katherine Medill McCormick was an American suffragist, philanthropist, and key financial supporter of the research that led to the development of the first birth control pill.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Katherine Medill McCormick canonical	2
Katherine Patrick Medill	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	birth control activist ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ suffragist ⓘ
advocatedFor	access to birth control ⓘ women's suffrage in the United States ⓘ
almaMater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ
alternateName	Katherine Dexter McCormick NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthDate	1875-08-27 ⓘ
birthName	Katherine Dexter NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthPlace	Dexter, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
burialPlace	Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
deathDate	1967-12-28 ⓘ
deathPlace	Boston, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
donatedTo	research of Gregory Pincus ⓘ research of John Rock ⓘ
educatedAt	Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
era	Progressive Era NERFINISHED ⓘ early 20th-century feminism ⓘ
familyName	McCormick NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	philanthropy ⓘ public health ⓘ women's rights ⓘ
gender	female ⓘ
givenName	Katherine NERFINISHED ⓘ
heritage	Medill family NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	leadership in the American woman suffrage movement ⓘ supporting research that led to the first birth control pill ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOf	League of Women Voters NERFINISHED ⓘ National American Woman Suffrage Association NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	birth control movement in the United States ⓘ women's suffrage movement in the United States ⓘ
notableAchievement	one of the first women to graduate in science from MIT ⓘ
notableDonation	major funding for oral contraceptive clinical trials ⓘ
notableWork	financial support for development of the first oral contraceptive pill ⓘ
occupation	philanthropist ⓘ suffragist ⓘ women's rights activist ⓘ
relative	Joseph Medill NERFINISHED ⓘ
residence	Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ
spouse	Stanley Robert McCormick NERFINISHED ⓘ
spouseEndTime	1947 ⓘ
spouseStartTime	1904 ⓘ
supportedProject	development of oral contraceptives at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

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: Katherine Medill McCormick
Description of subject: Katherine Medill McCormick was an American suffragist, philanthropist, and key financial supporter of the research that led to the development of the first birth control pill.

Referenced by (3)

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

McCormick family → hasNotableMember → Katherine Medill McCormick ⓘ

Joseph Medill → spouse → Katherine Medill McCormick ⓘ

this entity surface form: Katherine Patrick Medill

Joseph Medill → child → Katherine Medill McCormick ⓘ