Mary Shaw
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Mary Shaw was an American actress, suffragist, and social reformer known for her leadership in organizing women’s efforts during World War I and for advocating women’s rights in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Shaw canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5986647 — 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 Shaw Context triple: [Stage Women’s War Relief, foundedBy, Mary Shaw]
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A.
Mary Shaw
Mary Shaw is a prominent American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering contributions to software architecture and software engineering research.
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B.
Kim Weston
Kim Weston is an American soul and R&B singer best known for her 1960s Motown recordings and duets with Marvin Gaye.
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C.
Frances Charles
Frances Charles was the wife of American film actor Victor Mature, known primarily for her marriage to the Hollywood star.
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D.
Dorothy Shaw
Dorothy Shaw is the witty, down-to-earth brunette showgirl and best friend of Lorelei Lee in the musical comedy "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
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E.
Marilyn Vance
Marilyn Vance is an American costume designer known for her influential work on numerous popular films, including iconic 1980s and 1990s movies.
- 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 Shaw Target entity description: Mary Shaw was an American actress, suffragist, and social reformer known for her leadership in organizing women’s efforts during World War I and for advocating women’s rights in the early 20th century.
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A.
Mary Shaw
Mary Shaw is a prominent American computer scientist renowned for her pioneering contributions to software architecture and software engineering research.
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B.
Kim Weston
Kim Weston is an American soul and R&B singer best known for her 1960s Motown recordings and duets with Marvin Gaye.
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C.
Frances Charles
Frances Charles was the wife of American film actor Victor Mature, known primarily for her marriage to the Hollywood star.
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D.
Dorothy Shaw
Dorothy Shaw is the witty, down-to-earth brunette showgirl and best friend of Lorelei Lee in the musical comedy "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
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E.
Marilyn Vance
Marilyn Vance is an American costume designer known for her influential work on numerous popular films, including iconic 1980s and 1990s movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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person ⓘ social reformer ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
greater public roles for women
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political rights for women ⓘ women's participation in war relief efforts ⓘ |
| cause |
social reform
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women's suffrage ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
Progressive Era in the United States
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linked to:
Progressive Era
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| fieldOfWork |
social reform
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theatre ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| knownAs | Mary Shaw ⓘ |
| movement |
women's rights movement
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women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy of women’s rights in the early 20th century
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leadership in organizing women’s efforts during World War I ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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social reformer ⓘ stage actress ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
World War I home front mobilization in the United States
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linked to:
World War I home front
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| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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 Shaw Description of subject: Mary Shaw was an American actress, suffragist, and social reformer known for her leadership in organizing women’s efforts during World War I and for advocating women’s rights in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.