Mary Woodard
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Mary Woodard was an American health activist and philanthropist who became a leading advocate for medical research funding and public health initiatives in the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Woodard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12780627 — 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: Mary Woodard Context triple: [Mary Woodard Lasker, birthName, Mary Woodard]
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A.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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B.
Lelia McWilliams
Lelia McWilliams, better known as A'Lelia Walker, was an American businesswoman and patron of the arts who played a prominent role in Harlem's cultural life during the Harlem Renaissance.
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C.
Shirley Yarbrough
Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
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D.
Mary Lou Cook
Mary Lou Cook was the wife of American character actor Elisha Cook Jr., known for her connection to his long Hollywood career.
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E.
Edna Louise Johnson
Edna Louise Johnson was the wife of American lawyer and political activist Dudley Field Malone.
- 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: Mary Woodard Target entity description: Mary Woodard was an American health activist and philanthropist who became a leading advocate for medical research funding and public health initiatives in the 20th century.
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A.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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B.
Lelia McWilliams
Lelia McWilliams, better known as A'Lelia Walker, was an American businesswoman and patron of the arts who played a prominent role in Harlem's cultural life during the Harlem Renaissance.
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C.
Shirley Yarbrough
Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
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D.
Mary Lou Cook
Mary Lou Cook was the wife of American character actor Elisha Cook Jr., known for her connection to his long Hollywood career.
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E.
Edna Louise Johnson
Edna Louise Johnson was the wife of American lawyer and political activist Dudley Field Malone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
health activist
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human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| activityPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medical research advocacy
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public health ⓘ |
| movement |
medical research funding advocacy
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public health advocacy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for medical research funding
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support for public health initiatives ⓘ |
| occupation |
health activist
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philanthropist ⓘ |
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: Mary Woodard Description of subject: Mary Woodard was an American health activist and philanthropist who became a leading advocate for medical research funding and public health initiatives in the 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.