women's suffrage movement

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feminist movement political movement social movement

The women's suffrage movement was a long-running social and political campaign that fought to secure women's legal right to vote and expand their participation in democratic life.

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All labels observed (25)

Label	Occurrences
women's suffrage movement canonical	20
first-wave feminism	11
American women's suffrage movement	9
British women's suffrage movement	4
American women’s suffrage movement	3
women's suffrage movement in the United States	3
British suffragette movement	2
United States women's suffrage movement	2
American suffrage movement	1
American woman suffrage movement	1
American women's rights movement	1
American women's suffrage campaign	1
American women's suffrage movement leading to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution	1
British suffrage movement	1
Canadian women's suffrage movement	1
English women's suffrage movement	1
The Suffragette Movement	1
U.S. suffrage movement	1
United States woman suffrage movement	1
United States women’s suffrage movement	1
Victorian feminism	1
suffragette movement	1
suffragettes	1
women's rights movement	1
women's suffrage	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T242975 — 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: women's suffrage movement
Context triple: [Jane Addams, movement, women's suffrage movement]

A. Home Rule movement
The Home Rule movement was an early 20th-century Indian political campaign led by figures like Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant that demanded self-government within the British Empire and helped lay the groundwork for mass nationalist mobilization.
B. Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
The Freedom and People’s Rights Movement was a late 19th-century Japanese political and social campaign that pushed for constitutional government, civil liberties, and popular representation during the Meiji period.
C. Women’s Rights Online
Women’s Rights Online is a global initiative that works to close the digital gender gap and advance women’s empowerment through equal access, skills, and rights on the internet.
D. MeToo movement
The MeToo movement is a global social campaign against sexual harassment and assault that gained prominence in the late 2010s as survivors publicly shared their experiences and challenged systemic abuse of power.
E. National Federation of Democratic Women
The National Federation of Democratic Women is the official national organization that promotes and supports the participation, leadership, and policy priorities of women within the U.S. Democratic Party.
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: women's suffrage movement
Target entity description: The women's suffrage movement was a long-running social and political campaign that fought to secure women's legal right to vote and expand their participation in democratic life.

A. Home Rule movement
The Home Rule movement was an early 20th-century Indian political campaign led by figures like Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant that demanded self-government within the British Empire and helped lay the groundwork for mass nationalist mobilization.
B. Freedom and People’s Rights Movement
The Freedom and People’s Rights Movement was a late 19th-century Japanese political and social campaign that pushed for constitutional government, civil liberties, and popular representation during the Meiji period.
C. Women’s Rights Online
Women’s Rights Online is a global initiative that works to close the digital gender gap and advance women’s empowerment through equal access, skills, and rights on the internet.
D. MeToo movement
The MeToo movement is a global social campaign against sexual harassment and assault that gained prominence in the late 2010s as survivors publicly shared their experiences and challenged systemic abuse of power.
E. National Federation of Democratic Women
The National Federation of Democratic Women is the official national organization that promotes and supports the participation, leadership, and policy priorities of women within the U.S. Democratic Party.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	feminist movement ⓘ political movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
endDate	20th century ⓘ
hasIdeology	egalitarianism ⓘ feminism ⓘ liberalism ⓘ
hasKeyEvent	Finnish parliamentary reform of 1906 ⓘ International Woman Suffrage Alliance founding ⓘ New Zealand Electoral Act 1893 ⓘ Representation of the People Act 1918 ⓘ Representation of the People Act 1928 ⓘ Seneca Falls Convention ⓘ linked to: Seneca Falls, New York granting of women's suffrage in the 1917 Russian Revolution ⓘ passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Alice Paul ⓘ Carrie Chapman Catt ⓘ Christabel Pankhurst ⓘ Clara Zetkin ⓘ Elizabeth Cady Stanton ⓘ Emmeline Pankhurst ⓘ Ida B. Wells ⓘ Kate Sheppard ⓘ Lucy Stone ⓘ Millicent Fawcett ⓘ Sojourner Truth ⓘ Susan B. Anthony ⓘ Sylvia Pankhurst ⓘ
hasKeyOrganization	International Woman Suffrage Alliance ⓘ National American Woman Suffrage Association ⓘ National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ⓘ National Woman's Party ⓘ Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand ⓘ Women's Social and Political Union ⓘ
hasMainGoal	expansion of women's political participation ⓘ legal equality in suffrage laws ⓘ women's right to vote ⓘ
hasMethod	civil disobedience ⓘ hunger strikes ⓘ legal challenges ⓘ lobbying legislators ⓘ petitions ⓘ public demonstrations ⓘ
hasOppositionFrom	anti-suffrage organizations ⓘ conservative political groups ⓘ some religious institutions ⓘ
hasOutcome	extension of voting rights to women in many countries ⓘ increased female representation in politics ⓘ legal recognition of women's political citizenship ⓘ
influenced	civil rights movements ⓘ later feminist movements ⓘ
isPartOf	history of democracy ⓘ history of feminism ⓘ history of women's rights ⓘ
operatedIn	Asia ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Nordic countries ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
startDate	mid-19th century ⓘ

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