Vivian Burey Marshall
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Vivian Burey Marshall was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a civil rights supporter who played a key role in his early career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vivian Burey Marshall canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2926001 — 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: Vivian Burey Marshall Context triple: [Burey, usedBy, Vivian Burey Marshall]
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A.
Cecilia Suyat Marshall
Cecilia Suyat Marshall was a Filipino American civil rights activist and longtime NAACP staff member who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement and was married to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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B.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Marion Brown
Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
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D.
Elizabeth Thorsen Johnson
Elizabeth Thorsen Johnson is best known as the wife of Olympic decathlon champion and humanitarian Rafer Johnson.
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E.
Renée Felice Smith
Renée Felice Smith is an American actress best known for her longtime role as intelligence analyst Nell Jones on the television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
- 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: Vivian Burey Marshall Target entity description: Vivian Burey Marshall was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a civil rights supporter who played a key role in his early career.
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A.
Cecilia Suyat Marshall
Cecilia Suyat Marshall was a Filipino American civil rights activist and longtime NAACP staff member who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement and was married to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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B.
Mary McBride Smith
Mary McBride Smith was the wife of renowned American film director John Ford.
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C.
Marion Brown
Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the avant-garde and free jazz movements of the 1960s and beyond.
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D.
Elizabeth Thorsen Johnson
Elizabeth Thorsen Johnson is best known as the wife of Olympic decathlon champion and humanitarian Rafer Johnson.
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E.
Renée Felice Smith
Renée Felice Smith is an American actress best known for her longtime role as intelligence analyst Nell Jones on the television series NCIS: Los Angeles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Howard University School of Law community
ⓘ
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ⓘ
linked to:
NAACP
|
| birthName | Vivian Burey ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs |
key partner in Thurgood Marshall’s early legal work
ⓘ
supportive figure behind landmark civil rights litigation ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Marshall ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Vivian ⓘ |
| influenced | Thurgood Marshall’s commitment to civil rights ⓘ |
| knownFor |
encouraging Thurgood Marshall’s legal education and career
ⓘ
providing emotional and practical support to Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Thurgood Marshall until her death ⓘ |
| marriageStartToThurgoodMarshall | 1929 ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Vivian Burey Marshall ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of Thurgood Marshall
ⓘ
supporting the early civil rights work of Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| occupation | civil rights supporter ⓘ |
| playedRoleIn | early career of Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| relative | Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| residence |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
ⓘ
New York City, New York, United States ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| spouse |
Thurgood Marshall
ⓘ
Vivian Burey Marshall ⓘ |
| supported |
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund activities
ⓘ
Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
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: Vivian Burey Marshall Description of subject: Vivian Burey Marshall was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a civil rights supporter who played a key role in his early career.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Vivian Burey Marshall
subject linked to:
Thurgood Marshall (in part dissenting overall)