Mary Doe
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Mary Doe is the pseudonymous woman whose challenge to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law led to the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton, decided alongside Roe v. Wade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Doe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T561407 — 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 Doe Context triple: [Doe v. Bolton, petitioner, Mary Doe]
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A.
Jane Doe
"Jane Doe" is a song featured on Alicia Keys' debut studio album, *Songs in A Minor*.
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B.
Vivian Lake Brady
Vivian Lake Brady is the daughter of NFL quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
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C.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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D.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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E.
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States, renowned for her pioneering investigative work with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and her role in foiling an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
- 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 Doe Target entity description: Mary Doe is the pseudonymous woman whose challenge to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law led to the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton, decided alongside Roe v. Wade.
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A.
Jane Doe
"Jane Doe" is a song featured on Alicia Keys' debut studio album, *Songs in A Minor*.
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B.
Vivian Lake Brady
Vivian Lake Brady is the daughter of NFL quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
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C.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
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D.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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E.
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States, renowned for her pioneering investigative work with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and her role in foiling an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal pseudonym
ⓘ
party to a lawsuit ⓘ pseudonymous litigant ⓘ |
| challengesLawOf | Georgia ⓘ |
| challengesLawType | restrictive abortion law ⓘ |
| countryOfLegalCase |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedAs | pseudonymous woman challenging Georgia’s abortion law ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasLegalSignificance | landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ⓘ |
| hasPseudonymRole | plaintiff ⓘ |
| hasRightAsserted |
right to obtain an abortion
ⓘ
right to privacy ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
Roe v. Wade
ⓘ
abortion law in the United States ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | being the pseudonymous plaintiff in Doe v. Bolton ⓘ |
| isPlaintiffIn | Doe v. Bolton ⓘ |
| legalCase | Doe v. Bolton ⓘ |
| legalCaseAlongside | Roe v. Wade ⓘ |
| legalCaseCitation |
Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973)
ⓘ
linked to:
Doe v. Bolton
|
| legalCaseCompanionTo | Roe v. Wade ⓘ |
| legalCaseCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| legalCaseCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalCaseDecisionDate | 1973-01-22 ⓘ |
| legalCaseDecisionYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| legalCaseIssue | constitutionality of Georgia abortion statute ⓘ |
| legalCaseJurisdiction |
State of Georgia
ⓘ
linked to:
Georgia
|
| legalCaseState | Georgia ⓘ |
| legalCaseSubject |
abortion rights
ⓘ
reproductive rights ⓘ state regulation of abortion ⓘ |
| legalCaseType |
civil rights case
ⓘ
constitutional law case ⓘ |
| realIdentityStatus | pseudonymous ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Mary Doe Description of subject: Mary Doe is the pseudonymous woman whose challenge to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law led to the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton, decided alongside Roe v. Wade.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.