Mary Harris Thompson
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Mary Harris Thompson was a pioneering American physician and surgeon who founded Chicago’s first hospital for women and children and became one of the earliest prominent female surgeons in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Harris Thompson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1181726 — 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 Harris Thompson Context triple: [Thompson, hasNotableBearer, Mary Harris Thompson]
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A.
Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons was a prominent American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist known for her fiery oratory and activism on behalf of workers, the poor, and political prisoners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent American suffragist and peace activist who led the campaign for women’s right to vote and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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C.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneering American social reformer and leading figure in the women’s suffrage movement who played a crucial role in the fight for women’s right to vote.
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D.
Isabel Mary Wells
Isabel Mary Wells was the first wife of English writer H. G. Wells, whom he married in 1891 before their eventual separation.
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E.
Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley was a prominent American social and political reformer who championed labor rights, child welfare, and women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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 Harris Thompson Target entity description: Mary Harris Thompson was a pioneering American physician and surgeon who founded Chicago’s first hospital for women and children and became one of the earliest prominent female surgeons in the United States.
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A.
Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons was a prominent American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist known for her fiery oratory and activism on behalf of workers, the poor, and political prisoners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent American suffragist and peace activist who led the campaign for women’s right to vote and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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C.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneering American social reformer and leading figure in the women’s suffrage movement who played a crucial role in the fight for women’s right to vote.
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D.
Isabel Mary Wells
Isabel Mary Wells was the first wife of English writer H. G. Wells, whom he married in 1891 before their eventual separation.
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E.
Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley was a prominent American social and political reformer who championed labor rights, child welfare, and women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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physician ⓘ pioneer of women in medicine ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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pediatrics ⓘ surgery ⓘ women's health ⓘ |
| founded | Chicago’s first hospital for women and children ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRole |
hospital founder
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medical educator ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| movement |
women in medicine
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women's rights in healthcare ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
establishing a dedicated hospital for women and children in Chicago
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serving as a leading female surgeon in the 19th-century United States ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advancing medical care for women and children in Chicago
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being one of the earliest prominent female surgeons in the United States ⓘ founding Chicago’s first hospital for women and children ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
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surgeon ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago
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linked to:
City of Chicago
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| workLocation |
Chicago
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linked to:
City of Chicago
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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 Harris Thompson Description of subject: Mary Harris Thompson was a pioneering American physician and surgeon who founded Chicago’s first hospital for women and children and became one of the earliest prominent female surgeons in the United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.